Securing Evidence - Jewish Life in Hohenzollern
Forensics is an exhibition in the former synagogue in Haigerloch . The project was developed and implemented by the House of History Baden-Württemberg , the city of Haigerloch and the Discussion Group Former Synagogue Haigerloch e. V. The aim of the exhibition is to secure traces of Jewish life in Hohenzollern .
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The deportations from Hohenzollern to the National Socialist concentration and extermination camps in Eastern Europe began on November 27, 1941. Almost all the deported Jews were murdered. The Jewish communities in Hohenzollern were destroyed.
Today Jews from the former Soviet Union are living in Hechingen again , but only fragments are left of the former Jewish life in Haigerloch , Hechingen and Dettensee .
The few original objects that have survived have lost their original context, and sometimes the owners and the origin are unknown. They cannot reproduce "the" history of the Jews, but are testimony to the rich cultural, economic and political life of the Jews in Hohenzollern in the past. New objects have been exhibited over and over again in recent years. The most recent example is the door of the former Dettensee synagogue.
An essential part of the exhibition is an extensive range of eyewitness interviews. The most prominent conversation partner was the former head of the GDR Enlightenment Headquarters , Markus Wolf , who talks about his childhood in Hechingen. Jewish emigrants reported on their memories of life in Haigerloch. In an interview project with the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education , numerous Haigerloch citizens were asked about the different uses of the building.
place of exhibition
The synagogue , built in 1783, is one of the largest buildings of Jewish life in Haigerloch. Since its devastation during the November pogroms in 1938 , it has been deprived of its true purpose. The city of Haigerloch intended to convert the building into a gymnasium and in 1939/40 had the galleries torn down, the Torah shrine and entrance door walled up and a beamed ceiling installed. When the Eyach-Lichtspiele opened in 1952, the appearance of the former church had completely changed. The use of the cinema was finally followed in 1968 by the conversion to a Spar supermarket. In 1999 the city and the discussion group Former Synagogue Haigerloch eV succeeded in buying and maintaining the building.