Jewish cemetery (Kall)

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Entrance (2017)
View to the East (2017)
Looking West (2017)

The Jewish cemetery in Kall is located in Kall in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Of from 1835 to 1939 occupied burial place is under preservation stationary monument .

history

The Jewish cemetery is located on a 990 m² piece of land behind the vocational college on Loshardt, it is maintained by the Kall civil parish. In 1997, Elfi Pracht gave the number of 32  tombstones ( Mazewot ) from the period from 1865 to 1937 as existing. In 2016, there were still 31 graves for 34 interred. The burial place is surrounded by a hedge. To the left of the entrance there are six grave sites from the period from 1930 to 1937. Including the last surviving burial of Clementine Katz, who died on August 18, 1937. Another 25 grave monuments from the 19th and 20th centuries are in the eastern tip of the cemetery square.

Karoline Roer, née Katz (born 1874), who died on March 10, 1939, was the last member of the small Jewish community from Kall to be buried in the cemetery. The mourning speech was given by the local religion teacher Moses Fernbach. Her husband, Isaak Roer (1879–1943), who was married to Karoline's younger sister Rosalia (1878–1964) for the second time, died in Theresienstadt. There is no tombstone for Karoline Roer.

According to Hans-Dieter Arntz , foreign workers , including on April 3, 1944 Michael Olejinikow (born on September 15, 1912), who had previously been shot in Sötenich , were "buried" in the cemetery during the Nazi era .

The entry of the Jewish cemetery on the Loshardt in the list of monuments of the municipality of Kall took place on January 3, 1984.

See also

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Kall  - Collection of images

literature

  • Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part I: Cologne District. (= Contributions to architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, Volume 34.1 ) JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7616-1322-9 , p. 363.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Elfi splendor: Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part I: Cologne District.
  2. Inspection on November 24, 2016 according to the entry by Franz-Josef Knöchel on the Loshardt Jewish cemetery in Kall in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Association with a description of the LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland , 2011/2016, accessed on July 22 2017.
  3. Hans-Dieter Arntz : persecution of Jews and escape aid in the German-Belgian border area. Schleiden district, Euskirchen, Monschau, Aachen, Eupen / Malmedy Kümpel, Volksblatt-Druckerei, Euskirchen 1990, ISBN 3-9800-787-6-0 , p. 484.
  4. Hans-Dieter Arntz: persecution of Jews and escape aid in the German-Belgian border area. Schleiden district, Euskirchen, Monschau, Aachen, Eupen / Malmedy Kümpel, Volksblatt-Druckerei, Euskirchen 1990, ISBN 3-9800-787-6-0 , p. 741.

Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 16.9 ″  N , 6 ° 33 ′ 6.1 ″  E