Commission for the History of the Jews in Hesse

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Commission for the History of the Jews in Hesse
purpose Research into Jewish history in Hesse
Chair: Ruth Wagner
Executive Director: Hartmut Heinemann
Establishment date: 1963
Seat : Mosbacher Strasse 55
65187 Wiesbaden
Website: Commission website

The Commission for the History of the Jews in Hesse in the Hessian Main State Archives was founded in 1963 in view of the Auschwitz Trial then ongoing in Frankfurt and is the only one of the federal states in this form.

The chairperson is the former Hessian Minister of State. D. Ruth Wagner . Since the commission is responsible for the entire state of Hesse , archivists from all three state archives are active on the board. Other partners are the RheinMain University and State Library and the Frankfurt Jewish Museum .

The task of the commission is to promote research into Jewish history in the state of Hesse on a scientific basis and to provide aids. In her series of publications she publishes publications on this topic from the Middle Ages to the present. The program includes a. Monographs and personal testimonials on general Jewish history in Hesse, population and social history, emancipation and anti-Semitism, documentations on Jewish fate under the Nazi terror, and finally also subject-matter inventories on the transmission of sources in the Hessian state archives. The long-time head of the main state archive and secretary of the commission Wolf-Arno Kropat wrote a. a. two basic depictions of the 1938 pogrom night.

In cooperation with the Main State Archives in Wiesbaden, the commission oversees various projects on Jewish history.

Documentation of the Jewish cemeteries in Hesse has been a focus since 1981. A total of 75 cemeteries with a total of 17,000 gravestones of the deceased from around 320 Hessian communities are documented in this form. In cooperation with the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies in Marburg, the results are uploaded to its LAGIS information system. Documentation is also available in printed form for some of the larger cemeteries.

The "Synagogues in Hessen" project has been in progress since 2008. Analogous to comparable projects in other federal states, the more than 400 synagogues in Hesse, most of which no longer exist, are to be recorded and published in lexical form from a technical point of view. The Hessen State Office for Monument Preservation is a partner in this project .

As part of the “Working Group on Jewish Collections”, the commission has network contacts throughout the German-speaking region. There are also connections on an international level, as the publications and research projects, namely the documentation of the Jewish cemeteries, have met with a wide response from the descendants of former Jewish citizens from Hessen living abroad.

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