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The Israelitische Gartenbauschule Ahlem was a Jewish school founded in 1893 as the "Israelitische Erziehungsanstalt zu Ahlem bei Hannover". It served as a supra-regional, boarding school educational institution for horticulture and various trades. Its students came from all over Germany, from Eastern Europe, and occasionally even from Palestine and other countries; its graduates were soon to be found all over Europe, in Palestine, North and South America, and in the German colonies. The founder was the Hanoverian banker Alexander Moritz Simon.

Dannie N. Heineman (1872-1962) was born in the USA to German-Jewish emigrants and remained an American citizen throughout his life. After his father's death, he and his mother returned to Germany and lived in their native Hanover from 1883. Heinemann graduated from the Technical University of Hanover as an electrical engineer, worked for AEG Berlin and other companies, and made a career as a manager for a large Belgian electrical corporation. His mother died in Hanover in 1927.

What a contrast to the synagogue of 1827, which was still hidden in a backyard: In 1870, the New Synagogue by the eminent Jewish architect Edwin Oppler was inaugurated on an open square in Hanover's Neustadt. In its size and the chosen architectural style, the new building expressed a growing self-confidence and the belief that as Jews they had arrived in German society on an equal footing. For, Oppler said, "The Romanesque style is German through and through."

The cemetery was in use from 1700 to 1920. The eight stones that still exist today are no longer at the original location. Until about 1900 Jews from Fröndenberg Dellwig were buried in this cemetery. According to the death registers of Hennen, 13 Jews died in Hennen from 1822 to 1865. To date, six deaths from Dellwig are known.

The location of the previous cemetery, opened in 1718, is unknown today. The cemetery has a size of 392 square meters. The 6 gravestones existing today document an occupancy period from 1868 to 1935.The cemetery was bought by the Catholic Church in 1972. According to the death registers of Balve 34 persons of Jewish faith died from 1827 to 1936. From1868 to 1936 14 persons died. Away from the 4 gravestones of the Bondy family are 2 almost weathered stones, they are surrounded by a metal fence. These are probably Johanna (Hendel) and Helene Hendel Cohen. Both married a Schuler (student).

The Jewish cemetery of Hamm-Heessen is located at the Kleiststrasse.
The first mention is in 1822, but the cemetery is probably much older. The last burial took place in 1889.

In 1944, this cemetery was totally destroyed in a bombing raid. Only a bomb crater and an old oak tree remind of this cemetery.

Until 1956 the plot still appeared in the cadastral maps. In 1985 the site was ünde built over.

The 392 m² large plot was purchased in 1845 by Cusel Bernstein and Feist Nathan Neufeld. The still existing 15 gravestones document an occupation period from 1844 to 1935. It is unlikely that the gravestones correspond to the real graves. At the left edge there is a grave field of Russian foreign workers who found their last rest there between 1941 and 1945. To the right is the memorial slab for the 4 women who were hanged in October 1944 in the Auschwitz subcamp (Union Weichsel). They smuggled grams of explosives.