Ahrensburg Jewish community

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The first Jewish community in Ahrensburg existed in Ahrensburg from 1788 to 1941. Since 2003 there has been a Jewish community again.

history

1788 to 1941

The first Jewish families settled in the area of ​​what was then the aristocratic estate of Ahrensburg in 1788 . As protector Jews of Count Schimmelmann , they paid their dues to them. In 1812 the royal Holstein court granted the Jewish families resident in Ahrensburg a settlement permit. However, this was limited in number. The legal status of a community was granted to the Jewish residents in 1863. The basis for this was the law on the conditions of the Jews in the Duchy of Holstein . In it the Jews living in the duchy were equated with the non-Jewish citizens with all rights and obligations. The number of members of the Jewish community increased by the middle of the 19th century and reached its peak in 1852. In the course of advancing industrialization, there was an emigration to the larger cities in the following decades. At the end of the 1920s the community was dissolved.

From 1933, after the seizure of power of Adolf Hitler , the Jewish inhabitants were increasingly disenfranchised. In addition, there were repeated anti-Jewish actions. This and the riots during the November pogroms in 1938 resulted in other members of the Jewish community leaving Ahrensburg. The last Jewish resident of Ahrensburg was deported at the end of 1941.

today

In 2003 another Jewish community was founded in Ahrensburg. For this purpose 13 mostly elderly resettlers from the states of the former Soviet Union had come together. The community is a member of the State Association of Jewish Communities of Schleswig-Holstein and the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany . By 2012 the number of parishioners had grown to 20.

Development of the Jewish population

year Jews Jewish families comment
1788 2
1811 39
1835 46
1852 50
1925 25th
1930/33 6th
Late 1941 no
2003 13
2012 approx. 20

Source: jewische-gemeinden.de; Hamburger Abendblatt; stormarnschule.net

Facilities

Earlier

synagogue

From 1822 the community had a small synagogue near the castle church. The building was abandoned in 1920 and demolished in 1939.

graveyard

The deceased were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Ahrensburg, which was laid out in 1822 .

school

The community had a Jewish school from 1805 (again from 1860 after a long break). In 1876 it was closed. At times, a separate religion teacher was employed. Since the community did not have the financial means, it provided the teacher with board and lodging, while the payment was taken over by the Jewish communities of Hamburg and Altona.

today

Prayer room

Today's community maintains a prayer room in the Jewish community center in Ahrensburg (Reeshoop 4).

Mikveh

Like all other Jewish communities in Schleswig-Holstein, the community does not have its own mikveh . The mikvah in the Bad Segeberg synagogue is available to all Jewish residents of Schleswig-Holstein .

graveyard

The deceased of the community are buried today in the Jewish cemetery in Bad Segeberg.

Holocaust victim

In the memorial book - Victims of the Persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 and in the Central Database of the Names of the Holocaust Victims of Yad Vashem the following members of the Jewish community Ahrensburg (who were born there or lived temporarily) are listed who were born during the Nazism were murdered or suicide committed:

Surname First name Time of death Age Place of death comment swell
Bondy Paul 1943 62 years Auschwitz concentration camp Born in Prague . Lives in Ahrensburg. Emigrated to Czechoslovakia before 1939 . Yad Vashem (database, dataset No. 1058733) / Memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
deer Sophie December 19, 1943 84 years Theresienstadt ghetto Deported on February 24, 1943 from Hamburg to Theresienstadt ghetto. Yad Vashem (database, record no. 11524289) / Memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
Lehmann Magnus unknown unknown Jungfernhof warehouse Deported on December 6, 1941 from Hamburg to the Jungfernhof camp. Yad Vashem (database, record no. 11571922) / memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
Levy Edgar May 15, 1942 44 years Kulmhof extermination camp Deported on October 24, 1941 from Berlin to Ghetto Litzmannstadt (Transport 2 from Berlin). Deportation to Kulmhof extermination camp on May 15, 1942. Yad Vashem (database, data set No. 4114442 and 11574636) / Memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
Levy Malie (Malli) May 15, 1942 74 years Kulmhof extermination camp Deported on November 1, 1941 from Berlin to Ghetto Litzmannstadt (Transport 4 from Berlin). Deportation to Kulmhof extermination camp on May 15, 1942. Yad Vashem (database, dataset No. 11575391 and 4114573) / Memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
Marcus Erna unknown unknown Auschwitz concentration camp Deported on July 15, 1942 from Hamburg to Theresienstadt ghetto. Deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp on May 15, 1944. Yad Vashem (database, record no. 11588314) / Memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
Popper Ignatz November 25, 1941 68 years Fort IX Deported to Fort IX on November 22, 1941. Yad Vashem (database, dataset No. 11609148) / Memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
Rath Veronika Dorle August 27, 1938 55 years suicide Yad Vashem (database, record no.11610856) / Memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
Rosenthal Meta November 28, 1935 60 years suicide Memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
Solomon Charlotte unknown unknown Minsk ghetto Deported to Minsk ghetto on November 18, 1941. Yad Vashem (database, record no. 11621770) / Memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
Schlesinger Henny August 2, 1942 68 years Theresienstadt ghetto Deportation on July 21, 1942 from Düsseldorf to ghetto Theresienstadt (Transport VII / 1 train Da 70 / deportation number on the train: 811). Yad Vashem (database, record no. 4848587 and 1625946) / memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
  1. ↑ a b No date of death is given in the Yad Vashem database. There she / he is considered murdered or missing. The memorial book for the victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany gives the date of death May 15, 1942, i.e. the day of deportation. Whether she / he was actually murdered on arrival at the Kulmhof extermination camp cannot be determined from the sources.

literature

  • Martina Moede: The history of the Jewish community of Ahrensburg. From the first settlement in 1788 to the deportation in 1941. Wachholtz, 2003, ISBN 978-3529071270 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for the history of the German Jews: Das Jüdische Hamburg. A historical reference work. Wallstein Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3835300040 , p. 116. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  2. ↑ a b Ahrensburg (Schleswig-Holstein) . jewische-gemeinden.de. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  3. ^ A b Claas Greite: This is how the Jews lived in Ahrensburg . Abendblatt.de. November 8, 2012. Accessed May 1, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b New beginning in Ahrensburg . stormarnschule.net. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  5. ↑ Jens Peter Meie: Jewish community is reviving . shz.de. September 19, 2009. Accessed May 1, 2020.
  6. ^ Mikveh - Jewish ritual bath . lvjgsh.de. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  7. ↑ Commemorative Book Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 . Federal Archives. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  8. ^ Central database of the names of Holocaust victims . Yad Vashem - International Holocaust Memorial. Retrieved May 1, 2020.