Synagogue Aussig / Ústí nad Labem

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It was only after 1848 that Jews were able to settle in Aussig, as it was a royal city. Jews were not allowed to settle in such a town.

The neoclassical synagogue from the 1880s in the ‚Kleine Wallgasse‘ was financed by donations from members of the community. The official dedication was performed by the Rabbi of Teplice Artur Rosenzweig.

Former Soborten / Sobědruhy synagogue

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The Jewish community of Soborten was probably one of the oldest in Böhmen. It comprised parts of the districts of Teplitz, Dux and Karbitz. A first wooden synagogue is said to have been destroyed by fire around 1500, after which the Jewish families are said to have left the village.

The first documentary evidence of the existence of a large Jewish settlement in Soborten dates back to the first half of the 17th century, after which almost 70 Jewish families are said to have lived in the village around 1620.

Former Brüx Synagogue / Synagoga v Mostě

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The synagogue in Most, a town in the Ústecký kraj in the Czech Republic, was built in 1872/73. It was located on the northern edge of the old town, on a plot of land on Ringstrasse next to the Protestant church, close to what was then Bahnhofstrasse.

The synagogue was set on fire by the German Nazi occupying forces during the November Pogrom Night of 1938. The remains of the building were demolished after 1940. In its place is an artificial lake, which was created by the flooding of an open-cast lignite mine.

New Jewish cemetery Lovosice / Lobositz

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The New Jewish Cemetery Lovosice was built between 1871 and 1872. It is located in the western part of the town of Lovosice as part of the municipal cemetery in TeplickáStreet. In 1938, it was destroyed by the fascist Henlein movement. The last burial took place in 1978. In the 1980s, the gravestones were removed by local ČSFR bodies. Only 5 gravestones remain in the northern part of the cemetery. The remains of the old 17th-century Jewish cemetery were removed by the communist ČSSR regime in the 1950s.

New Jewish Cemetery Eidlitz / Nový židovský hřbitov Údlice

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The New Jüdische Friedhof Údlice is located on the northern edge of the village of Eidlitz/Údlice. It was founded in 1864, not long after the old Jewish cemetery was closed. The cemetery area has a total area of 2,634 square meters. Today, only around 16 gravestones have been preserved.

The Jewish cemetery was destroyed in 1938 under the Henlein movement and during the Second World War under the German Nazi regime. Some of the cemetery's gravestones were cut up and used as paving stones in Prague (ul. Na príkopě).

Třebívlice Jewish Cemetery - Židovský hřbitov Třebívlice

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The Jewish cemetery in Třebívlicích was established around 1867. Covering a total area of 665 square meters, there are around one hundred gravestones, most of which are damaged. It was occupied until the 1930s, although the local Jewish community founded in 1857 was dissolved in 1924 due to a sharp decline in membership. The last burial is said to have taken place in 1941 (although this information is not entirely certain).

Jewish cemetery Tschischkowitz - Židovský hřbitov Čížkovice

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The Jewish cemetery in Tschischkowitz / Čížkovice is located about one kilometer northwest of the village of Čížkovice in the district of Leitmeritz in the middle of fields. It was founded in 1800 and the oldest preserved gravestone dates back to 1839. There are around three gravestones or their remains on the total area of 539 square meters. Until the beginning of the 20th century, burials took place here and Jews from a wide area were buried here, including Jews from the religious community in Milesov or Jewish soldiers from the military garrison in Theresienstadt.

Josef Wachsmann

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Josef Wachsmann was born in Feuchtwangen on February 5, 1882. His parents were the merchant and gold worker Markus Wachsmann, born in Neusandez - Galicia on March 6, 1846, and Zine, called Lina Herschander, also born in Neusandez - Galicia on May 20, 1848. Markus Wachsmann died on January 9, 1921 in Feuchtwangen - Lina Wachsmann on June 13, 1926 in Feuchtwangen. Both are buried in the Jewish cemetery in Schopfloch. From 1902-1903 Josef Wachsmann was a teacher at the Jewish school in Trabelsdorf. From 1919 he was employed by the city of Berlin as a science teacher.

Master tanner and tradesman - Samuel Stern

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The recipient of the postcard was Hermann Stern. Hermann Stern was born in Feuchtwangen on November 1, 1885. His parents were Samuel Stern, born in Feuchtwangen on May 12, 1855, and Fanny Gutmann, born in Hainsfarth on May 8, 1861. Samuel Stern was a merchant and master tanner and, according to the address, also a tannery owner. He died on June 23, 1933 in Feuchtwangen at the age of 72. He found his final resting place in the Jewish cemetery in Schopfloch together with his wife Fanny, who succeeded him on February 21, 1936.