Freiburg im Breisgau

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In Freiburg a Jewish community existed first in the Middle Ages. For the first time in 1281 (possibly already in 1230) Jews*Juden in the city are mentioned. The persecution of the Jews during the plague on January 30, 1349 destroyed the community. A few years later, some Jews in the town moved in again, until they were expelled, first in 1401, then again in 1424.

World Jewish Relief

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World Jewish Relief is a British aid organization that was founded in 1933 to support German Jews who had to suffer under the National Socialist regime. It played one of the main roles in organizing the Kindertransporte, which helped to bring about 10,000 German as well as Austrian children out of the Third Reich. Today, World Jewish Relief works on various social projects in a global context.

Salon of Rahel Varnhagen (Berlin)

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Rahel Varnhagen, born Levin, was a German-Jüdish writer and salonnière. She was committed to Jüdian emancipation and to the emancipation of women. In Berlin in the years 1790-1806 she ran a salon under the name „Salon of Rahel Levin“. Later, after her marriage she called it „Salon of Rahel Varnhagen“. The salon evenings took place in her apartment in Berlin's Maurerstra;e, where she invited poets, naturalists, politicians, socialites, and aristocrats from the elite of society to join her.

Jewish Cemetery Wandsbek (Hamburg)

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The Jewish cemetery Wandsbeck or also  cemetery Königsreihe in Hamburg was from 1637 to 1884 in use of the Jewish community Wandsbek.

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It is located on the former Lange Reihe (today Königsreihe, corner Litzowstraße) .
The tenant Colonel Bernd von Hagen provided the land on which the cemetery was built in 1634.

Like many Jewish cemeteries, this one was desecrated during the November pogrom of 1938.

Since 1960 the cemetery is under monument protection. Approximately 1,000 gravestones are still preserved, the oldest dating back to 1676.

 

Jüdenstraße (Berlin-Spandau)

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Jüdenstraße is a traffic route in the old town of the Berlin district of Spandau and was in the Middle Ages residential area of the Jews of Spandau. It begins at the Altstädter Ring and crosses there the Mühlengraben, crosses the Moritzstraße as well as the Ritterstraße and meets at its northern end again the Viktoria-Ufer. The street originated in the 14th century. The word "Jüden" is a transliterated variant of the Middle High German word "Juden". This street received its name after the Jews living there at that time. The earliest known record of the name dates back to 1537.