Vettweiß Jewish community
The Jewish community Vettweiß was a Jewish community in Vettweiß , Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .
The butcher Moses Levi Schwarz, son of Levi Gladbach, had settled in the village in 1791. The descendants still lived in Vettweiß in the 20th century. The only seven to ten Jews visited the prayer room in Lüxheim in the middle of the 19th century . The Jews from Froitzheim , Poll , Hochkirchen , Kelz and Nörvenich also met there . In 1866 this branch community Lüxheim had 113 souls. 34 Jews lived in Vettweiß in 1886. That was 3.5% of the population.
From 1932 at the latest, the community belonged to the Jewish community of Düren .
The director of the local dairy, Heinrich Josef Dohmen, had been the local group leader of the NSDAP since 1932. He harassed the Jews and also other Vettweissers. He was the driving force behind the November pogrom on November 10, 1938, during which the Vettweiß synagogue was also destroyed.
At least 24 Jews were deported and killed.
From 1860 to 1934 the dead were buried in the Jewish cemetery in the district of Kettenheim, where 25 tombstones ( mazewot ) still stand today.
literature
- Regina Müller: Bringing home and life , Düren 1989
- Yearbook of the District of Düren 2015, pp. 97-106, ISBN 978-3-942513-25-8