Bad Ems is an idyllic spa town on the Lahn River. Especially the Kurhaus and the Kursaal building give an impression of the heyday of the spa business in the 19th century, when the international high society met here. The exclusive center was followed downstream by the village, which was characterized by agriculture and handicrafts. Jewish merchants, butchers, millers, doctors, bankers and hoteliers also lived in the spa and in the village of Ems. Around 1900, the Jewish community in Bad Ems was the largest in the Unterlahnkreis with almost 190 members. It comprised about 3% of the total population.
Jewish residents were first mentioned in a list of inhabitants in 1665. As elsewhere, they could at best buy their toleration with protection money. Nevertheless, they were discriminated against. Civil rights were granted to them by the Duchy of Nassau in the course of the revolution of 1848. As a result, Bad Ems Jews gained a wide range of social standing.
>This city walk recalls the brief period of equal rights for Jewish citizens, good Christian-Jewish neighborliness, esteemed Jewish residents and recognized institutions of the Jewish community. Survivors of the Holocaust testify to this in audio documents, as well as to the inconceivable suffering inflicted on them and their brothers and sisters in faith by the National Socialists.
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The video walk was realized by students of the Goethe Gymnasium Bad Ems together with their teacher
Römerstr. 12
56130 Bad Ems
Germany
Römerstr. 12
56130 Bad Ems
Germany
The rights are owned by the project group "Traces of Jewish Life in Bad Ems", unless otherwise stated. The historical photos were provided by the city archive of Bad Ems, unless otherwise stated.
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Photo Brandenburg Gate: Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-P049267 / Weinrother, Carl/ CC-BY-SA 3.0
O-ton Edith Dietz: Liz Dühr / freelance journalist-moderator-speaker
Römerstraße 89
56130 Bad Ems
Germany
The rights are held by the project group "Traces of Jewish Life in Bad Ems", unless otherwise stated. The historical photo was provided by the city archive of Bad Ems.
Römerstraße 65
56130 Bad Ems
Germany
The rights are held by the project group "Traces of Jewish Life in Bad Ems", unless otherwise stated. The historical photos were provided by the city archive of Bad Ems.
Römerstraße 64
56130 Bad Ems
Germany
The rights are held by the project group "Traces of Jewish Life in Bad Ems", unless otherwise stated. The historical photo was provided by the city archive of Bad Ems.
Friedrichstraße 13
56130 Bad Ems
Germany
The rights are held by the project group "Traces of Jewish Life in Bad Ems", unless otherwise stated. The historical photos were provided by the city archive of Bad Ems, unless otherwise stated.
.Photo children: Elke Bingel, Bad Ems
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Photo Emmi Strauß: Association Memorial to the Victims of National Socialism, Koblenz
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Documents: LWV Archive, K 12 No.1013 and LWV Archive, K 12 No. 1050
Original sound Bernhard Strauß: City archive Bad Ems
Arzbacher Straße
56130 Bad Ems
Germany
The rights are held by the project group "Traces of Jewish life in Bad Ems".
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