Lank-Latum Jewish cemetery
The Jewish cemetery Lank-Latum is a Jewish cemetery in Lank-Latum , today a district of Meerbusch in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The small cemetery with 14 grave sites is located in the western district of Latum on the through road (Uerdinger Straße) at the southern exit towards Strümp , east of Lake Latum .
history
Creation
The Jewish cemetery in Lank-Latum was only created in 1878. Previously, the dead from Lank-Latum were buried in the Jewish cemeteries in Linn and in Kaiserswerth on the right bank of the Rhine . Since Linn finally refused to accept corpses from abroad and since the transport to Kaiserswerth over the Rhine was difficult, especially during floods, the Israelite community made an application for its own cemetery to the Lank mayor in 1876, which was granted.
National Socialism
Most of the grave sites in the cemetery date from before the persecution of the Jews under National Socialism . Most of the Jews from Lank-Latum were deported to Riga in 1941 and later murdered; only three survived the Holocaust. But little of this is evident in the cemetery. Unlike the Jewish cemetery in today's Meerbusch district of Osterath , which was desecrated in 1934 and later removed, the one in Lank-Latum was preserved. It was not formally closed until after 1945.
The last gravestones are from 1937. After the end of World War II, descendants added an additional stone for Eliese Leopold, who died in 1937, and an additional inscription in memory of her son Moritz Leopold and his wife Josefine (née Jesse) , who moved to Izbica in 1942 were deported and murdered in Auschwitz .
After the Nazi era, a memorial stone was erected on site. It bears the inscription:
- "In memory of the Jewish fellow citizens of our community who perished during the National Socialist era"
Preservation of monuments and documentation
Today the cemetery is one of the Meerbusch monuments . Care and maintenance are the responsibility of the city.
The cemetery was most recently fully documented as part of the euregio rhein-maas-nord project . The results (all gravestones with photos and translation of the inscriptions) are stored in the database of the Steinheim Institute , which can be accessed online.
literature
- Caterina Maria Jansen: When stones speak. The Jewish burial place in Lank-Latum. Traces of a Jewish rural community , in: Meerbuscher Geschichtshefte (Meerbusch) 15 (1998), pp. 124–141
- Dieter Peters : Land between the Rhine and Maas. Genealogical data from Jewish cemeteries in the former Rhine province and in the Dutch province of Limburg. Kleve 1993. (For Lank-Latum see page 197.)
- Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia, [Part II] administrative district Düsseldorf. Cologne 2000 (For Lank-Latum see pages 482–483, 517.)
- Michael Brocke and Hartmut Mirbach: Boundaries of Life. In Jewish cemeteries on the Lower Rhine. Duisburg 1988. (For Lank-Latum see page 92.)
- Lothar Klouten: The fate of the Meerbusch Jews 1933 - 1945 [in two parts]. In: Meerbuscher Geschichtshefte, Part 1 in Heft 1, 1984, pp. 14-32, Part 2 in Heft 2, 1985, pp 109-110
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Peter Honigmann (Ed.), Central Archive for Research into the History of Jews in Germany: Collections: Friedhofsdokumentation. Jewish cemeteries in Germany. Overview of all Jewish cemeteries in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany with special consideration of the inscription documentation . Online at www.uni-heidelberg.de (North Rhine-Westphalia, HL)
- ↑ a b c Norbert Stirken: Jewish Cemetery in Lank-Latum - Memories of Holocaust Victims , Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung, online edition of November 11, 2009
- ↑ Janß, Günter: The Osterather Judenfriedhof and the history of the Jewish community. In: Meerbuscher Geschichtshefte , Heft 14, 1997, pp. 49–71
- ↑ a b City of Meerbusch: Jewish cemetery ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Full documentation of the tombstones in the Jewish cemetery Lank-Latum on steinheim-institut.de
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 7.2 " N , 6 ° 40 ′ 10.7" E