Jewish community Haslach in the Kinzigtal

A Jewish community in Haslach im Kinzigtal , a town in the Ortenau district in Baden-Württemberg , already existed in the Middle Ages .

history

During the persecution during the plague in 1349, the Jews in Haslach were accused of poisoning wells and burned in May 1349 on the Haslach market square. After that, the sources are silent until the 19th century.

After 1862, individual Jewish people and families moved to Haslach and from 1895 to 1938 they formed a branch of the Jewish community in Offenburg . The community had set up a prayer room in a private house at Sägerstrasse 12 since the late 1890s. Their dead were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Schmieheim . The Jews were mainly merchants, such as B. the cattle dealers Isaak and Siegfried Mannheimer and the wine dealer Heinrich Bloch.

National Socialist Persecution

“In 1933 there were only two Jewish families in the city: Alfred Moses (businessman at Mühlenstrasse 9), who traded in junk goods, waste paper, rags, skins and bones (wife Martha and sons Eugen and Helmut, see photo below) and the Merchant Josef Bloch (Sägerstrasse 20), who sold oils and fats (for machines, cars and cars) (wife Josefine and son Artur). Both families' actions were immediately affected by the ordered boycott of Jewish shops on April 1, 1933. Dentist Eugen Geismar (a Jew who converted to Catholicism) was also boycotted. Alfred Moses gave up his business in June 1938 and moved to Freiburg. He wanted to emigrate to the USA with his family in May 1939, but the ship was sent back to Europe. At the beginning of 1940 the emigration from France succeeded with the second attempt. "(From: alemannia judaica)

The memorial book of the Federal Archives lists 8 born Jewish citizens in Haslach (since there are different places with the name Haslach, the assignment is not clear!), Who fell victim to the genocide of the National Socialist regime .

Community development

year	Parishioners
1871	3 persons
1875	5 people
1880	14 people
1885	25 people
1890	31 people
1895	37 people
1900	43 people
1905	29 people
1925	13 people
1933	8 people

literature

• Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger : Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 , pp. 520-522 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany . Volume 4).

Web links

• Jewish community Haslach in the Kinzigtal near Alemannia Judaica

Individual evidence

1. ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved January 20, 2010.