Jewish cemetery (Dornum)

The Dornum Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in the Dornum municipality in the Aurich district . The entrance to this cemetery is at the end of Marktstrasse.

history

The Jewish cemetery in Dornum

The Jewish community of Dornum received the property from the local authority in 1721. The site in front of the site was initially rented and could be bought in 1723. Until 1938, the Jewish dead from Dornum were buried in this cemetery.

During the so-called Reichskristallnacht , documents about the cemetery and the Jewish community in the market square were burned. In the following period the property was sold for 150 Reichsmarks. The tombstones were removed and stored in Marktstrasse. About 150 tombstones were misused.

After the Second World War , the cemetery was on Allied been restored order. Since there were no more documents available, the remaining 36 tombstones could no longer be assigned to any grave.

Tombstones

The grave slab of Aaron Levy (Aharon ben Jehuda Blitz), who died on October 31, 1721, is the oldest gravestone. This plate documents the Sephardic burial tradition with three others .

The youngest gravestone is for Wolf (Adolf) Abrahams, who died on November 6, 1938.

Martha Cohen's missing tombstone was found in early 1990. Students at the Dornum secondary school found him doing maintenance work. Mrs. Cohen, née Friedheim, died on January 29, 1927.

There is not a single tombstone of the poor junk dealer family Schönberg. The grandfather of the Marx Brothers , Abraham Moses Schönberg, died on November 30, 1862.

See also

• History of the Jews in East Frisia
• List of Jewish cemeteries in East Frisia

literature

• Horst Reichwein: The Jews in the East Frisian glory Dornum (1662-1940). The history of the synagogue community of Dornum from the East Frisian prince's claim for protection money in 1662 to the expulsion by the National Socialists in 1940 . Edition Holtriem, Westerholt 1997, ISBN 3-931641-03-1 .

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dornum. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. Lower Saxony.
• Jewish cemetery in Dornum. In: Alemannia Judaica .
• Jewish cemetery in Dornum. In: Beth-ha Hayim.
• Occupancy plan. (PDF; 23 kB) In: Alemannia Judaica.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horst Reichwein: The Jews in the East Frisian glory Dornum (1662-1940). The history of the synagogue community of Dornum from the East Frisian prince's claim for protection money in 1662 to the expulsion by the National Socialists in 1940 . Edition Holtriem, Westerholt 1997, ISBN 3-931641-03-1 . P. 83

Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 51.5 ″  N , 7 ° 25 ′ 35 ″  E