Jewish community Kostelec nad Labem
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 37.4 ″ N , 14 ° 35 ′ 2 ″ E
The Jewish community in Kostelec nad Labem (German Elbekosteletz , formerly also Elbkosteletz ), a town in Okres Mělník in the Czech Republic , came into being in the 1860s and was wiped out by the Holocaust .
history
The first written records of Jews in Kostelec come from the late 16th century.
After the expulsion in the period after 1650, an Israelite religious community was not founded again until the 1860s , to which around 20 families belonged. However, as in other rural Jewish communities, emigration to the larger cities soon began. In 1930 only 18 people of Jewish faith lived in Kostelec.
In addition to a synagogue , the Jewish community also had a cemetery , which was probably laid out in the 16th century.
The main occupation of the Jews in Kostelec was the trade in cattle and other products.
time of the nationalsocialism
In 1941/42 the Jewish residents of Kostelec were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto or directly to the extermination camps in occupied Poland .
See also
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 ).
- Rabbi Moritz Mandl: History of the Jews in Brandeis ad E. and Elbekosteletz . In: Hugo Gold , The Jews and Jewish communities of Bohemia in the past and present . Jüdischer Buch- und Kunstverlag, Brno / Prague 1934, pp. 56–58 ( online ) at the Upper Austria Regional Library
