Abraham Grünbaum
Abraham Grünbaum (also Greenbaum ; * 1930 in Poland ; † June 7, 2001 in Zurich ) was an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and head of a yeshiva in Israel.
During a visit to Switzerland on June 7, 2001 in the Aussersihl district of Zurich on Weberstrasse at Hallwylplatz around 10 p.m. on the way to the evening prayer in the synagogue of the parish "Agudas Achim" in Wiedikon, an unknown person struck down two shots; he died 30 minutes later despite medical help. A larger sum of money of over CHF 1,000 and a plane ticket to Belgium that the victim had carried with him were not stolen. The murder is discussed in the Swiss media over and over again, so also in the series Unsolved crimes of Swiss television in 2006. The perpetrators and the Tatgründe could not be determined until today.
documentation
- Christa Ulli: Unsolved criminal cases. The rabbinical murder of Zurich , video in: SRF 1 , 35 minutes, partly in Swiss German . ( PDF )
Individual evidence
- ^ Rabbi shot dead in Zurich. In: haGalil online from June 11, 2001.
- ↑ David Nauer, Thomas Knellwolf: Zurich Rabbi murdered by German neo-Nazis? In: Tages-Anzeiger of December 10, 2011.
- ↑ Entries in Swissdox on the search terms "Abraham Grünbaum" (64) and "Abraham Greenbaum" (23), accessed on December 17, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grünbaum, Abraham |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 2001 |
| Place of death | Zurich |