Jewish community of Gürzenich
The Jewish community of Gürzenich was a Jewish community in the Gürzenich district of Düren .
The synagogue community of Gürzenich, to which Gey , Derichsweiler and Birgel also belonged, is typical of the rural synagogue communities in the Düren district .
Jews had lived, worked, traded, founded families in Gürzenich as early as 1653 and were finally buried in the Jewish cemetery . Since the middle of the 18th century, several Jewish families had permanent residence in Gürzenich. The number was almost constant at 40 to 60 people until 1933. For their German fatherland they had gone to war, wounded and awarded medals just as naturally as their non-Jewish peers. And they died for Germany, as the 20-year-old Josef Heumann from Gürzenich, who is recorded in the “Memorial Book for the Jewish Fallen in the German Army, the German Navy and the German Protection Forces 1914–1918”, published by the Reichsbundischer Jewish Frontsoldaten .
A number of Jews from Gürzenich were deported from Holland to the extermination camps.
Number of Jews in Gürzenich:
- 1857 = 49
- 1872 = 62
- 1895 = 58
- 1905 = 44
- 1911 = 56
- 1933 = 50
See also
literature
- Regina Müller: Bringing Home and Life , Düren 1989, p. 96
- Elfi Pracht : Jewish Cultural Heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia , Part I: Cologne District, p. 93