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The house on Zeppelinstrasse, Neu-Isenburg

The girls 'dormitory in Neu-Isenburg (also: home of the Jüdischer Frauenbund , Heim “Isenburg” , Jewish children's home , Jewish girls' home ), located in Neu-Isenburg in Hesse , was a refuge for Jewish girls and women in the first part of the 20th century.

founding

The home was founded on the initiative of Bertha Pappenheim in 1907 and is her second life's work alongside the establishment of the Jewish Women's Association .

Pappenheim, which a few years earlier had participated in an international conference on the intercontinental (Jewish) trafficking in girls , founded this home for uprooted, Eastern European girls who had been kidnapped from their countries of origin, and for single mothers with their children. At times more than 100 people lived on the area with four houses.

In the home the girls and women were given a new perspective on life through education and training.

Destruction during the Nazi dictatorship

In the period from 1936 to 1938, the home could only work to a limited extent due to the extremely restrictive policies of the Nazi dictatorship until it was set on fire in the November pogroms in 1938. The following years were marked by attacks by the authorities and fear on the part of the residents. In 1942, along with the remaining Jewish citizens of Neu-Isenburg, the last residents were deported and murdered, and the home was forcibly closed.

present

The city of Neu-Isenburg bought the home in the 1950s and has since housed various schools on the site. Now the Hessian state center for political education is housed in the former home . A memorial erected in 1996 by the city of Neu-Isenburg in the building at Zeppelinstrasse 10 is a reminder of the life and work of Bertha Pappenheim. A kindergarten and crawling groups are also housed on the site.

literature

  • Marion A. Kaplan: Jewish bourgeoisie, woman and family in the empire. Hamburg 1997.
  • Marion A. Kaplan: The Jewish women's movement in Germany, organization and goals of the Jewish Women's Association 1904–1938. Hamburg 1981.
  • Heidemarie Wawrzyn: Forays into the life of Bertha Pappenheim. Lecture on Bertha Pappenheim. Diakonie-Anstalt Salem-Köslin, Minden / Westphalia 1998. doi : 10.3239 / 9783640385997 . ISBN 978-3-640-38568-3 (e-book: ISBN 978-3-640-38599-7 ). P. 8ff. (Quoted from the issue on Google Books, accessed June 6, 2011).
  • Heidemarie Wawrzyn: Basics of Jewish-feminist social ethics in the German Empire using the example of Bertha Pappenheim. Diploma thesis 1993. Grin-Verlag, Munich 2009, pp. 16-17. 28.
  • Heidemarie Wawrzyn: Tensions in Bertha Pappenheim's Jewish-Feminist Thought? Lecture, University of Bremen 1996. Grin-Verlag, Munich 2009, pp. 4–5, 8 and 15.
  • Helga Heubach: The home of the Jewish Women's Association in Neu-Isenburg, 1907 to 1942. Magistrate of the City of Neu-Isenburg (ed.), Neu-Isenburg 1986.
  • Heidi Fogel, Noemi Staszewski: On the life and work of Bertha Pappenheim. Reprint of the text panels from the permanent exhibition in the Bertha Pappenheim seminar and memorial site. Magistrate of the City of Neu-Isenburg (ed.), Neu-Isenburg 2006.
  • Stephanie Forchheimer: Jewish-social women's work in Frankfurt aM In: Community newspaper of the Israelite community Frankfurt am Main 6 (1927), No. 3 (November); P. 57 ff.
  • Christina Klausmann: Politics and culture of the women's movement in the empire. The example of Frankfurt am Main. Campus, Frankfurt am Main - New York 1997, p. 157 ff.
  • Arno Lustiger (ed.): Jewish foundations in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main 1994. Reprint of the 1988 edition, p. 163f.

An extensive scientific bibliography can be found on the memorial page of the city of Neu-Isenburg: Sources and literature . Retrieved June 6, 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The home complex originally comprised three buildings on Taunusstrasse. In 1918 Bertha Pappenheim donated the house on Zeppelinstraße, the property of which was adjacent to the property of the houses in Taunusstraße, as accommodation for interns.

Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '27.4 "  N , 8 ° 41' 4.9"  E