Gottschalk Joseph Ballin

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Gottschalk Joseph Ballin was born in Aurich on March 24, 1789, the son of the merchant Joseph Meyer Ballin. His mother Priba Ballin was a former Goldschmidt, a family also later influential in Oldenburg. Ballin had two brothers and two sisters. He worked as a banker and opened the court banking house "C. & G. Ballin" in Oldenburg.

Finkelstein family home

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Stolperstein for Fanny and Moritz Finkelstein and their six children Klara, Bertha, Bruno, Toni, David and Wilhelm

The fate of Moritz Finkelstein and sons Bruno, Toni and David unknown. Daughter Klara managed to escape to Palestine. Fanny Finkelstein and daughter Bertha were shot in 1941, son Wilhelm was murdered in Auschwitz.

 

Bea Wyler

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Bea Wyler was born in Baden, Switzerland, in 1951. After graduating from school, she first studied agronomy and worked in this industry for several years. As a young woman, she discovered her Jewish roots, took a trip to Israel and began studying Jewish theology. After her ordination in 1995, she was rabbi of the Jewish communities of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst until 2004. Bea Wyler was thus the first female rabbi in Germany after World War II. In the meantime, Bea Wyler lives again in Switzerland, where she still teaches and publishes.

Old Jewish Cemetery Lublin - Stary Cmentarz Żydowski w Lublinie

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At present, the old Jewish cemetery in ul.Kalinowszczyzna covers an area of about 1 hectare. Of the 3,000 gravestones, which were densely arranged over the entire area of the hill, only about 60 have survived to this day. However, there are still many gravestones of people who were particularly meritorious for the Jewish community in Lublin. The Matzewa of the learned Talmudist Jaakov Kopelman, who died in 1541, is the oldest Jewish tombstone in Poland and stands in its original place.

Jewish House of Prayer Lublin

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The only Jewish prayer house of once over 100 that was not destroyed by the Germans during the war also marked the border with the ghetto, which began on the right side of the street. The fact that the prayer house was located outside the ghetto probably saved it from destruction.

Because the minimum number of ten adult males (13 years of age completed) in the religious sense is no longer reached, which is required for a service, no services are held here today.