Siegfried Bacharach (journalist)

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Siegfried Bacharach (born 5. June 1896 in Eschwege , died in the 20th century) was a German merchant , booksellers , newspaper - publisher , editor and author .

Life

Siegfried Bacharach was the time of the German Empire born at the end of the 19th century as the first child of the Jewish school in the Schulstraße 3 living in Eschwege and his profession as Chasan performing Levi Bacharach (born 24 December 1867 in Rhina , died by suicide on August 27, 1942 in Eschwege shortly before the announced deportation ). Siegfried's mother was Berta , née Jonas (born September 29, 1874 in Plaue ; died June 18, 1941 of cancer in Eschwege). His two younger sisters were Rahel and Paula .

After working as a merchant, Siegfried Bacharach was de-registered as a teenager in the middle of the First World War on July 3, 1915, initially for basic military service in Kassel . Since he did not return to his parents' house in Eschwege until the beginning of the Weimar Republic on January 1, 1920, his previous participation in the war and prisoner of war is assumed.

On February 10, 1922, Siegfried Bacharach registered his place of residence at Dachenhausenstrasse 1 B in Hanover , where he initially worked as a bookseller. His Jewish book distribution was at Wedekindstrasse 5 in the Oststadt district .

After the New Synagogue, also located in the Hanoverian district of Calenberger Neustadt , and the local Jewish community , including the one in Braunschweig , had been published since 1920 by the news sheet, Jewish weekly newspaper, the official organ for the synagogue communities of Hanover and Braunschweig , Bacharach took over in the year In 1924 the weekly newspaper was published , the place of which was at least temporarily indicated in the title as Kassel .

In 1932 Siegfried Bacharach married the Hanoverian Franziska , nickname Fränze , née Schragenheim (born April 8, 1906 in Hanover).

Even after the seizure of power by the Nazis and even into the year of the so-called " Kristallnacht , during which the New Synagogue on the" mountain road on the night of November 9 to 10 1938 a command of the SS first by means of desecration and arson destroyed - and therefore the Jewish community life - gave Siegfried Bacharach the ... newsletter out.

Shortly before, in 1938, Bacharach wrote the articles Mourning and Hope and The Awesome Days and Youth in the Jewish Community Gazette for Central Saxony .

In September 1941, the Lauterbacher campaign began in Hanover , through which members of the already broken Jewish community and other people with Jewish ancestors or relatives were crammed into 15 so-called “ Jewish houses ”. From there the first deportations to the extermination and concentration camps had already begun, when the Bacharach couple had to “live” in the buildings at An der Strangriede 55 in the northern part of Hanover - the one from the National Socialists to the “Judenhaus” on the Jewish Friedhof An der Strangriede redesigned mass quarters as the last stop before the deportations. But the Bacharach couple managed to deregister on October 12, 1941, to emigrate to Cuba . Before that, Siegfried Bacharach had given Ruth Herskovits-Gutmann's father the key to his so-called “lift”, a wooden shipping container with a library on the premises of the Israelite Horticultural School in Ahlem . Works by writers who had escaped the book burning in Hanover were kept in the “elevator” .

Around 1980 the survivors of the Bacharach family had built a house in Israel while “[…] Siegfried Bacharach from Rhina” was living in New York .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Karl Kollmann , York-Egbert König : Bacharach. In: Names and fates of the Jewish victims of National Socialism from Eschwege. Ein Gedenkbuch , 1st edition, Ed .: Nicolas-Gasoline-Foundation , Raleigh, North Carolina: Lulu Enterprises, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4709-7182-3 , passim , especially p. 12; online through google books .
  2. ^ Max Kreutzberger (ed.), Irmgard Foerg (collaborator): Leo Baeck Institute New York. Library and archive , catalog, vol. 1: German-speaking Jewish communities. Newspapers, magazines, yearbooks, almanacs and calendars. Unpublished memoirs and memorabilia (= series of scientific treatises of the Leo Baeck Institute , vol. 22), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1970, p. 345; online .
  3. ↑ Volker Dahm : The Jewish Book in the Third Reich , Vol. 1: The Elimination of Jewish Authors, Publishers and Booksellers (from: Archive for the History of Books , Vol. 20, Vol. 1 - 2. 1979), Frankfurt am Main: Booksellers Association, 1979, ISBN 3-7657-0859-3 , p. 64; Preview over google books.
  4. ^ Helmut Zimmermann: Wedekindstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital ... , p. 259.
  5. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Dachenhausenstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 57.
  6. ↑ Peter Schulze: Synagogues. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 614f.
  7. ↑ a b c d Peter Schulze : The Jewish community life 1918–1933 , in ders .: Jews in Hanover. Contributions to the history and culture of a minority (= cultural information , no.19), on 132 pages (DIN A4) richly illustrated accompanying booklet to the exhibition Jews in Hanover 1989 in the old preaching hall at the Jewish cemetery An der Strangriede , Hanover: Peter Schulze, 1989 , Pp. 35-41; here: p. 36f.
  8. ↑ Peter Schulze: Reichskristallnacht. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 520.
  9. ↑ Compare the evidence in the catalog of the German National Library
  10. ↑ Compare the evidence in the catalog of the German National Library
  11. ^ Peter Schulze: Action Lauterbacher. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 17.
  12. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: An der Strangriede , in ders .: The street names of the state capital ... , p. 26.
  13. ↑ Peter Schulze: Jewish cemeteries. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 328f.
  14. ↑ Bernhard Strebel (Ed.), Ruth Herskovits-Gutmann: Ahlem , in this .: Emigration not possible for the time being. The history of the Herskovits family from Hanover , Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89244-507-9 , pp. 108–121; here: p. 111; mostly online via Google books.
  15. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Book Burning. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 92.
  16. ↑ Peter Otto Chotjewitz , Renate Chotjewitz-Häfner : Those who sow with tears. Israelisches Reisejournal , Munich: Verlag Authors Edition, 1980, ISBN 3-7610-0567-9 , p. 10; Preview over google books.
personal data
SURNAME Bacharach, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, bookseller, newspaper publisher, editor and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschwege
DATE OF DEATH 20th century