Regional association of the Jewish communities of North Rhine

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The National Association of Jewish Communities of North Rhine (lv), headquartered in Dusseldorf is a public body an association of Jewish communities in the country part of North of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . He is a member of the Central Council of Jews in Germany . With eight Jewish communities and a total of 16,512 community members (as of 2017), the LVNR is the largest regional association within the Central Council.

history

The association was founded in 1945. In February 1946, Philipp Auerbach , chairman of the regional association of Jewish communities in the North Rhine Province, said before the conference of Jewish organizations in London: “... the only wish of German Jews was a life in dignified conditions. Equal treatment with the Germans can only be accepted after reparation for the injustice that has occurred ”.

From March 1946 to September 1947, the synagogue community and the North Rhine State Association lodged a complaint with the military government and the local government of Düsseldorf on behalf of the 300 community members who, according to Julius Dreifuss, were in poor health due to their imprisonment in the concentration camp and the resulting high need needed more electricity and gas in terms of medical care.

The association lamented the discrimination against Jewish business people and company owners. In August 1946, Philipp Auerbach proposed tax breaks for former concentration camp prisoners and victims of Nazi persecution in order to enable Jewish businesses to be founded. The Jewish Relief Unit noticed in October 1946 that former Jewish business owners and their heirs were at a disadvantage compared to the new owners of the “ Aryanized ” businesses because they could not have applied for a permit to open a business early because of imprisonment in a concentration camp.

local community Parishioners
March 1946 		Former concentration camp inmates
Aachen 62 22nd
Mönchengladbach 53 24
Krefeld 70 70
Duisburg 26th 24
Dusseldorf 240 101
Wuppertal 128 ?
Bonn 85 ?
eat 146 ?

Until 1948, the synagogue community and the North Rhine regional association protested to the (British) city commanders and the district's military government on behalf of Jewish merchants and entrepreneurs. They either wanted building permits in order to be able to repair shops that had been demolished in the November pogrom of 1938 , or the transfer of "Aryanised" businesses back. They also protested against confiscated business premises.

After the establishment of the state of Israel in May 1948 and a new American immigration law in June 1948, many emigrated from the "land of the perpetrators" by 1949. Even those who stayed justified their stay as supposedly limited and spoke of a “life in packed suitcases”.

With the influx of Jewish immigrants from the CIS states after the collapse of the Soviet Union , the number of members in the communities in the North Rhine area increased, for example in Aachen from 62 in 1946 to 1,440 members in 2005, in Bonn from 85 to 947, in Düsseldorf from 240 to 7428, in Duisburg from 26 to 2860, in Essen from 146 to 863, in Krefeld from 70 to 1077, in Mönchengladbach from 53 to 733 and in Wuppertal from 128 to 2359 members.

The association is - together and on an equal footing with the Synagogue Community of Cologne and the State Association of Jewish Communities of Westphalia-Lippe - a contracting party to the State Treaty of June 8, 1993 between the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Jewish communities in North Rhine-Westphalia. The fifth amendment to this contract came into force on January 1, 2018. It includes the regional association of Jewish communities in North Rhine-Westphalia eV as the fourth regional association to represent the liberal communities in the agreement.

Youth Department

The association has had a youth department with a youth officer for almost ten years. The task of the youth officer is to support the child and youth work of the eight member communities and to network them more closely. The name of the youth unit is "Esch" ( Hebrew אֵשׁ), which means “ fire ” in Hebrew and symbolizes the “transmission of the fire of Judaism from one generation to the next”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: State Association of Jewish Communities of North Rhine Kdö.R. / website Central Council of Jews in Germany , as of 2019
  2. ^ A b Donate Strathmann: Jewish life in Düsseldorf and North Rhine after 1945 . In: Monika Grübel / Georg Mölich: Jewish life in the Rhineland. From the Middle Ages to the Present , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005. (Verlag Böhlau), p. 243.
  3. ^ Donate Strathmann: Jewish life in Düsseldorf and North Rhine after 1945 . In: Monika Grübel / Georg Mölich: Jewish life in the Rhineland. From the Middle Ages to the Present , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005. (Verlag Böhlau), p. 250.
  4. ^ A b Donate Strathmann: Jewish life in Düsseldorf and North Rhine after 1945 . In: Monika Grübel / Georg Mölich: Jewish life in the Rhineland. From the Middle Ages to the Present , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005. (Verlag Böhlau), p. 254f.
  5. ↑ Monika Grübel / Georg Mölich: Jewish life in the Rhineland. From the Middle Ages to the present. Verlag Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, p. 284.
  6. ↑ Press release of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on August 10, 2018
  7. ↑ Legal text April 7, 2017 Accessed August 10, 2018
  8. ↑ Source homepage youth department of the regional association of Jewish communities of North Rhine , as of March 2012

literature

  • Monika Grübel / Georg Mölich: Jewish life in the Rhineland. From the Middle Ages to the present. Böhlau publishing house, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005.