Jewish community of Wittenberge
The Jewish community in Wittenberge , a town in the Prignitz district in Brandenburg , was founded in 1923 and dissolved due to persecution during the Nazi era .
history
During the 19th century, a small number of Jews had settled in Wittenberge. In 1880 there were around 30 and in 1910 82 people. A separate Jewish community was not formed until 1923 when it separated from the Jewish community of Perleberg . There was no synagogue of its own in Wittenberge ; the one in Perleberg was visited.
The Jewish cemetery in Wittenberge was located on the site of the old municipal cemetery on Perleberger Strasse.
Jewish entrepreneurs were of great importance to the city of Wittenberge. The merchant Salomon Herz (1791–1865) built an oil mill in the city in 1823 , which was important for the development of the city. His son Wilhelm continued this company, he was a valued citizen with many honorary posts.
Another important Jewish entrepreneur was Isaac Merritt Singer , who built the Wittenberge sewing machine factory , a subsidiary of the New York- based Singer Manufacturing Co. , in 1903 .
National Socialist Persecution
During the November pogroms of 1938 , shops and homes of the Jewish citizens were demolished and the cemetery was desecrated. About 30 Jewish residents of Wittenberge were able to emigrate in time, 18 people were deported .
The memorial book of the Federal Archives lists 20 Jewish citizens born in Wittenberge who fell victim to the genocide of the National Socialist regime .
See also
literature
- Günter Rodegast: From the history of the Jews in Wittenberge. Wittenberge 1996. (not evaluated)
Web links
- Jewish community Wittenberge (in the article Perleberg ) at www.jüdische-gemeinden.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Commemorative Book - Victims of Persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 . Retrieved August 15, 2019.