Meeting place Old Synagogue Wuppertal
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Elberfeld , Wuppertal 
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| architect | Busmann + Haberer et. al |
| opening | 1994 |
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The Old Synagogue Meeting Center is an ensemble of buildings in Wuppertal that houses an exhibition and meeting center that serves to remember and present Jewish life in the region. The meeting place is the only Jewish museum and the only place to learn about the history of National Socialism in the Bergisches Land . The head of the meeting place is Ulrike Schrader . The sponsoring association is made up of over 20 social institutions and associations.
Goal setting
The meeting place is dedicated to the task of researching and documenting the history and fate of the Jewish fellow citizens in Wuppertal and the region, especially in relation to the time of National Socialism . At the same time, the understanding of the relevant historical context should be promoted.
The meeting place has housed the permanent exhibition "Torah and Textiles" since 2011, which deals with Jewish life in the Bergisch and Märkisch regions in the past and present. It also has an archive, a library and a small exhibition on Jewish identity today using the example of Jewish fellow citizens. The meeting place works closely with schools and is the place for events, especially lectures and readings. In addition, every year it organizes a competition sponsored by the Wuppertaler Stadtwerke , in which specialist work from the upper level that falls within the subject area of the meeting place is awarded.
Several publications and two exhibitions were developed in the meeting place:
- Ms. Antonie Giese lived here on the history of the Jews in the Bergisches Land
- Wuppertal under National Socialism. An exhibition with documents and pictures on the history of the city of Wuppertal during the Nazi era
Both exhibitions can be borrowed from schools.
Location
The Elberfeld synagogue was destroyed by arson during the November pogroms in 1938 . Until the 1980s, the site was a rubble plot used as a parking lot. When the city of Wuppertal planned to build a multi-storey car park at this point, an initiative arose to promote a more dignified memory of the synagogue and the Jewish community.
The meeting place was built according to plans from the Busmann + Haberer , Zbyszek Oksiuta and Volker Püschel working group. The meeting place was inaugurated in April 1994 by the then NRW Prime Minister Johannes Rau and the chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Ignatz Bubis .
The ruins of the northern cellar wall of the synagogue are in the center of the present-day ensemble.
ancient Torah
Part of the library
View from the outside, on the left the old wall as the remains of the synagogue
See also
literature
- Ulrike Schrader: Goldschmidt, Cohn and Mandelbaum. Jewish places in the Bergisches Land. Wuppertal 2012, pp. 34–59
- Ulrike Schrader: Torah and textiles. On the history of the Jews in Wuppertal. Wuppertal 2007
- Working group of NS memorials and places of remembrance NRW e. V. (ed.): History in Responsibility. Nazi memorials and places of remembrance in North Rhine-Westphalia. Wuppertal / Münster 2013
Web links
- Video for the opening of the permanent exhibition
- 15 years old synagogue meeting place , Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from April 15, 2009
- On the opening of the permanent exhibition , Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) on April 5, 2011
- Portrait of the Old Synagogue Wuppertal meeting place
- Meeting place Old Synagogue Wuppertal. In: arch INFORM . (on the architecture of the meeting place)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Awards for specialist work in the history department. Bayreuther Strasse High School, accessed on May 23, 2016 .