New Jewish cemetery (Enkirch)

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The new Jewish cemetery is located as part of the general cemetery from the street on the left side of the perimeter wall, but has an entrance along the footpath to Starkenburg. A formerly associated extension plot is no longer part of the cemetery. The entrance gate and the arrangement of the gravestones were renewed after 1945.

Ernst Löwenstein

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Ernst Löwenstein was a lawyer who worked at the Oldenburg District Court as well as the Higher Regional Court. He married Else de Boer, who was Protestant, and had with her  two children. With their children Hermann Löwenstein and Anneliese Löwenstein the family emigrated to the USA in 1951.

Family de Beer

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Family de Beer (Adolf & Mathilde with Hilda, Erich, Charlotte, Ilse) was very well connected in Oldenburg. Thus, they operated a steam laundry since 1905 and Adolf de Beer founded the Jewish gymnastics club "Schild". Adolf, Charlotte, Mathilde and Hilda additionally maintained memberships in various clubs that continued to intertwine them with society. Ilse was murdered in 1944 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

 

Goldschmidt family

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The Goldschmidt family, consisting of the couple Alex (b. 1879) and Toni and their children Bertha (b. 1909), Günther (b. 1913), Eva (b. 1920) and Helmut (b. 1921), lived in Oldenburg from circa 1906 to 1936. Except for Toni and Eva, the individual family members gradually emigrated due to events in Germany. They were able to operate their women's clothing store "Haus der Mode" in Oldenburg until 1934. Four of the family members were murdered in concentration camps.