Home of Peace Cemetery (East Los Angeles)

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The Home of Peace Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located at 4334 Whittier Boulevard west of Interstate 710 in East Los Angeles, California.

The cemetery is located across from Calvary Catholic Cemetery and next to Beth Israel Cemetery and Mount Zion Cemetery.

There are a number of famous rabbis buried here, and amongst others a few celebrities from the entertainment industry as well.

Notable interments [edit]

  • Burt Baskin, business magnate and co-founder of Baskin-Robbins.
  • David Berman (1903–1957), Jewish mobster who ran the Las Vegas Flamingo Hotel, one-time partner with Bugsy Siegel
  • Susan Berman (1945-2000), author, journalist, daughter of Jewish mobster Davie Berman
  • Thelma Bernstein, actress
  • Fanny Brice, actress and comedienne (relocated to Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery)
  • Louis Burston (1877-1923), motion picture producer
  • Boake Carter (1900-1944), journalist
  • Lou Clayton (1890-1950), entertainer
  • Jack B. Cohn (1906-1947), composer
  • Harry Einstein (1904-1958), comedian
  • Leo F. Forbstein, composer and conductor
  • Al Freeman (1883-1956), actor and writer
  • Harold M. Freeman (1916-1944), screenwriter, killed in World War II
  • Mack Gordon, composer and lyricist
  • Curly Howard,actor,comedian, member of the Three Stooges
  • Shemp Howard,actor,comedian member of the Three Stooges
  • Carl Laemmle, film executive, founder of Universal Pictures; he created the "Star" system
  • Carl Laemmle Jr., Son of Carl Laemmle
  • Charles Lane, character actor
  • Solomon Lazard, 19th Century merchant and community leader
  • Edgar Magnin, rabbi and spiritual leader
  • Jerry Gershon Mayer (1891-1947), motion picture executive, Louis B. Mayer's sibling
  • Louis B. Mayer, a founder of the MGM film studios
  • Ida Mayer Cummings, fund-raiser, Louis B Mayer's sibling
  • Rudolph W. Mayer (1889-1951),entrepreneur, Louis B. Mayer's sibling
  • Carmel Myers, actress
  • Kurt Neumann, motion picture director and producer
  • Harry Norwood (1888-1952), theatrical talent agent
  • Viola Adele Porter (1879-1942), actress
  • Harry Rapf, motion picture producer and studio executive
  • Marvin Ross (1922-1989), stage and screen actor
  • Mark Sandrich, motion picture director
  • Morris R. Schlank (1879-1932), motion picture producer
  • Abraham Spiegel (1907-2004), philanthropist and European concentration camp survivor
  • Abe Stern, motion picture producer
  • Bernard Stone (1883-1942), stage and motion picture director
  • Joe Traub (born Joseph Weintraub) (1902-1936), screenwriter
  • Charles Vidor, motion picture director
  • Harry Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers film studios
  • Jack Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers film studios
  • Sam Warner, co-founder and first CEO of Warner Brothers film studios
  • Conrad Wells (born Abraham Fried) (1892-1930), cinematographer
  • Osher Zilberstein, rabbi