Olsztyn Jewish Community
The Jewish community in Olsztyn (Polish: Olsztyn ), today's capital of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , was established at the beginning of the 19th century.
history
After a prayer house in Richtstrasse was initially used for worship , the Jewish community built its first synagogue in 1835 on the corner of Schanzenstrasse and Krummstrasse. When this had become too small due to the increasing number of members, the Jewish community bought a piece of land on Liebstädter Strasse to build a new synagogue here in 1877. The Olsztyn synagogue was burned down during the November pogroms in 1938 .
The Jewish community in Allenstein also had a community center, a poor house and an infirmary.
The Jewish cemetery on Seestrasse, which was built around 1815/20, was leveled in the 1960s. Only the Tahara house has been preserved.
The memorial book of the Federal Archives lists the Jewish citizens born in Allenstein who fell victim to the genocide of the National Socialist regime .
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online edition ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved January 17, 2018.