Butcher and cattle dealer Joseph Salomon

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In 1812, Nathan Salomon from Südpreußen settled in Nieder Ochtenhausen. He was a butcher and tradesman by profession. Around 1900, his son Heinrich Salomon moved into house no. 64. In 1909, the Salomon family finally moved to Bremervörde after Joseph (Julius) Salomon, the son of Heinrich Salomon, acquired the property at Flutstraße 71 (formerly Lokal „Alt Bremervörde“, Bremer Straße 14). In November 1909, Joseph was granted the civil right. The butcher Joseph was active in Bremervörde as a cattle dealer, while he leased the butcher's shop to Claus Sethmann.

Leopold Manufactory

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Max Leopold, who was born in 1879 in Barchfeld (Thuringia), married Bella Eckstein, born in 1886 in Oberlauringen (Franconia), in Bremervölde. Their three children Stephan Arno (born 1912), Hans (born 1916) and Erika (born 1922) attended secondary school and, just like the other Jewish children from Bremerwald, suffered injustice from their teachers and classmates at an early age.

The two sons Stephan Arno and Hans managed to flee to North America in 1934 and 1935.

Residential and commercial building 'Manufaktur- und Modewarengeschäft Heyn'

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The Heyn family ( Hein Levi) had been resident in Bremervürde since 1753.

In May 1936, the Jewish merchant Siegfried Heyn was forced to sell his home and business premises. Siegfried Heyn moved with his wife to Hamburg in 1937 and then to Bremen in 1938, where he was arrested in the early hours of November 10 and deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was released as he was able to prove that he was able to emigrate.

Günther Heyn, Siegfried Heyn's 29-year-old son and 22-year-old daughter Ilse Heyn emigrated to the United States of America as early as 1938.

Doctor and writer Isaac Salomon Kapper (1821-1879) - birthplace

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The doctor and poet Isaac Salomon (Siegfried) Kapper, born on March 21, 1821 in Smíchow near Prague; died on June 7, 1879 in Pisa, was a pioneer and founder of the Czech-Jewish movement.The group around Kapper strove for the full spiritual freedom of the Jews and their assimilation into the Czech milieu. In 1848 (Prague Whitsun Uprising), Kapper took part in the revolutionary and national struggles on the side of the Czechs.

Dr. Hermann Gradnauer (1894 - 1978)

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Hermann Gradnauer was born in Wolfenbüttel in 1894, the son of a shoe retailer. After serving in the military as a medic until 1918, he studied dentistry and became a dentist in Hamelin in 1920. His wife Hilde Gradnauer, née Ilberg, also came from Wolfenbättel, where her parents had an important textile business. The couple had two children

Jewish Youth Association | Board of Directors A. Friedheim

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‚Brit Haolim‘: Chaluzischer Jugendbund from 1922, which merged with the Jung-Jüdischer Wanderbund in 1925. 

The Jüdischer Jugendbund ‚Brit Haolim‘ had as its practical goal the preparation for life in the kibbutz. The ‚Brit Haolim‘ consistently demanded that every fully educated young Zionist should emigrate to Palestine. Even after emigration, they wanted to live together and then merge into the working class of Palatinate.

Božena Neumannová, née Fuchsová - MUDr. Antonín Neumann - Eva Vanousová, née Neumannová - Jiřina Neumannová

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Božena Neumannová, née Fuchsová and her daughter Jiřina Sofie were murdered in Auschwitz extermination camp in 1944.

Her husband MUDr. Antonín Neuman – he worked as a prisoner in the camp hospital of the Auschwitz extermination camp – and daughter Eva Marie üsurvived the Shoa.

Shortly before 1939, the Neumann couple had their children Eva and Jiřina baptized as Christians because they thought this would save them from Nazi persecution.

Ludwig Landgrebe and Ilse Maria Landgrebe, née Goldschmidt

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Ilse Maria Landgrebe, née Goldschmidt, was born in Reinbek in 1906. Her parents - Arthur Goldschmidt (lawyer) and Toni Katharina-Maria Jeanette née Horschitz - were Christians of Jewish origin.

Ilse Maria Goldschmidt married the phenomenologist and philosopher Ludwig Landgrebe in 1933.

Because of his Jewish-Christian wife Ilse Maria, Ludwig Landgrebe fled to Prague in 1935.

Izaak Synagogue - Synagoga Izaaka Jakubowicza

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In 1638, the wealthy Jewish merchant Isaak Jakubowicz (common name: Ajzyk Jekeles) received permission from the Polish King Władysław IV. Wasa granted permission to build a synagogue. This was completed in 1644.

It was repeatedly rebuilt over the years. During the German occupation of Poland in the Second World War, the building was destroyed and the bima was completely destroyed.

After the war, the interior was partially restored; in 1981, it was again destroyed by fire.