Golden Hill Cemetery is located at 5025 North 42nd Street on the north end of Omaha, Nebraska. The Chevra B'nai Israel Adas Russia purchased the land as a Jewish cemetery in 1888.
Rose Blumkin, the founder of the Nebraska Furniture Mart, was buried at Golden Hill after she died in 1998. The cemetery also has graves for several soldiers and officers from Omaha who were killed in World War II.
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