Home of Peace Cemetery (Santa Cruz, California)

The Home of Peace Cemetery (also called Beit Shalom) is a Jewish cemetery in Santa Cruz, California. Consecrated in 1877 by the Hebrew Benevolent Society, it is located on Meder Street – named after Moses Meder, a Mormon businessman who gifted the land to the Society – on the west side of Santa Cruz, near the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Temple Beth-El, the local synagogue in Santa Cruz, operates the cemetery. It is the oldest Jewish cemetery in Santa Cruz County, California.

Notable burials

• Hugh De Lacy (1910 – 1986), politician from Seattle, Washington; his last wife Dorothy (née Baskin) was Jewish.

See also

• List of cemeteries in California

References