Home of Peace Cemetery (Colma, California) facts for kids

Home of Peace Cemetery, also known as Navai Shalome, is a Jewish cemetery established in 1889, and is located at 1299 El Camino Real in Colma, California. The cemetery contains the Emanu-El Mausoleum, owned by and serving the Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco. It is one of four Jewish cemeteries near the city of San Francisco and it shares an adjacent space next to the Hills of Eternity Memorial Park (also a Jewish cemetery, and also founded in 1889).

History

Levi Strauss mausoleum at the Home of Peace Cemetery

Emanu-El Hart (or the "Old Jewish Cemetery") was built in 1847 at Gough Street and Vallejo Street in San Francisco; by 1860 the remains were relocated to an area that is now Mission Dolores Park and this served as a cemetery for the Congregation Emanu-El and the Congregation Sherith Israel. When the city of San Francisco started to see dramatic growth in population; it was decided to move the cemetery outside of the city to Colma and they established Home of Peace Cemetery and Hills of Eternity Memorial Park with each cemetery served a different congregation.

Notable burials

• Aaron Fleishhacker (1820–1898), Kingdom of Bavaria-born American businessman; founded paper box manufacturer, A. Fleishhacker & Co.
• Herbert Fleishhacker (1872–1957), businessman, civic leader and philanthropist.
• Abraham Haas (1847–1921), Kingdom of Bavaria-born American businessman, co-founder of the Hellman, Haas & Co.
• Alfred Hertz (1872–1942), Prussian-born conductor.
• Florence Prag Kahn (1866–1948), teacher, politician, and the first Jewish woman to serve in the United States Congress.
• Julius Kahn (1861–1924), Grand Duchy of Baden-born American politician, United States Congressman.
• Simon Koshland (1825–1896), Kingdom of Bavaria-born American businessman, and wool merchant.
• Charles Lane (1905–2007), actor, appearing in many Frank Capra films.
• Philip N. Lilienthal (1849–1908), banker and philanthropist; initially interred at the family vault at Home of Peace Cemetery and later moved to Salem Fields Cemetery, in Brooklyn, New York.
• Joseph Owades (1919–2005), biochemist and brewer of light and industrially produced beer.
• Ignatz Steinhart (1840–1917), banker, entrepreneur, philanthropist; namesake of the former Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco.
• Levi Strauss (1829–1902), German Confederation-born American businessman; founder of Levi Strauss & Co. and the first blue jeans.
• Adolph Sutro (1830–1898), Prussian-born American engineer, politician and philanthropist; served as the 24th mayor of San Francisco from 1895 until 1897.
• Walter Wanger (1894–1968), film producer.
• James David Zellerbach (1892–1963), businessman, United States diplomat and ambassador.