Hemsbach synagogue

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In 1843, the Jewish community, under its then head Max Pfälzer, bought what is now the property at Mittelgasse 16 in the center of Hemsbach.

In 1845, master builder Valentin Fuchs drew up plans for a synagogue with a school, a teacher's apartment and a bathhouse.

The plans were implemented with the construction of the Jewish community center in 1847/48. On the south side of the synagogue courtyard, a bathhouse with a ritual bath was created.

Aberle, Gaston Eugen

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Gaston Eugen Aberlé was born in Neukölln on April 15, 1912, the son of Armand Aberlé of Strasbourg and his wife Bertha, née Grünberg. He had a brother Manfred. Gaston Aberlé became a commercial employee. Whether he married and had children could not be determined. Most of the time he lived as a subtenant, for example in 1939 at Cheruskerstraße 20 with the pensioner A. Menzel. He performed forced labor, most recently at the Pertrix-Werke in Niederschöneweide, where batteries, flashlights and, from 1934, cartridge cases were manufactured.

Jacobi, Erna

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Oct. 26, 2010
* December 12, 1890 in Berlin as Erna Jacoby - Erna Jacobi was an elementary school teacher, but worked in forced labor since 1935, last as a cleaner at the company Scherli & Schwer. Like her husband Dr. Max Jacobi, she was considered an active Protestant church member; she had left the Jewish congregation in adulthood and had been baptized a Protestant. For reasons of faith, the couple was actively involved in the fight against the Nazi regime within the framework of the oppositional