Sara-Ruth Schumann
Sara-Ruth Schumann was born Hedwig Abraham in Bremen in 1938. She survived the Second World War in hiding and moved to Oldenburg with her husband and son in 1968. Initially a member of the Protestant Church, she converted to the Jewish faith in 1990 and was strongly committed to the reconstruction of the Oldenburg Jewish Community. As First Chairwoman of the congregation, she succeeded in bringing the first Rabbi Bea Wyler to Oldenburg. She led the congregation to a non-Orthodox Judaism, in which women are equal to men.
Samuel Lazarus
Samuel Lazarus (October 13, 1887-November 1982) was born, like his three siblings Simon, Rosa and Paul, in Stapelmoor. He served the German Army in World War I and married Gerta Jacobs in 1922, with whom he lived at Damm 30 in Oldenburg that same year, where they raised their joint children Jan, Claus and Ilse. Samuel worked in the Oldenburg cattle trade and ran his own cattle and horse business. Before he was deported to Theresienstadt with Gerta and Ilse, the three of them lived in Hamburg.
Heimann Cohen
Heimann Cohen, son of Victor Feibel Cohen (1836-1900) and Minchen Cohen, née Breslauer (1844-1913), was one of eleven children. His siblings were: Schoontje Josephs-Cohen (1864-1944), Philipp Victor Cohen (1866-1943), Bernhard Cohen (1868-1932), Mathilda Hakkert-Cohen (1869-1943), Johanna Cohen-Juchenheim (1872-1943), Georgine Hakkert-Cohen (1874-1925), Elise van Gelder-Cohen (1876-1943), Wolf Wilhelm Cohen (1877-1913), Leeser Cohen (1881-unknown), and Moritz Cohen (1890-1943).
Jewish elementary school Oldenburg
Ernst Beer was the last teacher of the Oldenburg Jewish Elementary School, which was closed in 1940. Beer was born on June 26, 1881, in Friedland, Märkisch. He was the son of the elementary school teacher Moritz Beer. Influenced by him, Ernst Beer trained as an elementary school teacher. On September 11, 1906 he married Anna Baruch (born March 13, 1869 in Söhren, died September 08, 1942 in Chełmno) in Bad Segeberg. On July 31, 1907, his son Samuel Beer was born (died April 11, 1972).
Jewish Cemetery Seegasse (Vienna)
The oldest Jewish cemetery was established in 1421 in the Rossau. Most of the graves date from the time of Vienna's second Jewish community (1624-1670). It saved the cemetery from imminent dissolution by redeeming it to the city of Vienna in the name of the brothers Isak and Israel Fränkel for 4,000 gulden. A short time later it passed to the war commissioner and court banker Samuel Oppenheimer, who subsequently had a poorhouse and hospital built.
Former Jewish cemetery of Görden (Brandenburg)
After 1920, a separate Jewish burial ground was created on the grounds of the Görden State Institution, directly next to the Christian institution cemetery. Between 1922 and 1941, a total of 46 Jewish patients* were buried there. The overgrown plot was only restored in 2006 with funds from the state of Brandenburg, and a memorial stone was erected.
Former Jewish religious school (Brandenburg)
In the house Kurstraße 68 was temporarily the religious school of the Jewish community in Brandenburg an der Havel. After construction of the new community center in the Große Münzenstraße (1877), classes were held there again.
Former mikvah (Brandenburg)
On the property of today's Lindenstraße 9 was from 1819 to 1883 the ritual bath (Mikwe) of the Jewish community in Brandenburg an der Havel.