Hakhshara

Since 1922, the agricultural school ‚Haus Schalom' des Bachad (orthodox Jewish parallel organization to the Hechaluz) was located at Ackerweg 5, where young Zionists prepared for emigration to Palästina and were trained in agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry by neighbouring farmers. The clinker brick house was used for general residential purposes from 1932 and had to make way for the new P+R parking garage at Hamburg-Neugraben S-Bahn station in 1993.

The youth and educational home of the German Jewish Community Federation located in Wolzig is of great historical importance. The home stood for tolerance towards Judaism, was able to accommodate a large number of Jewish youth for centuries until the National Socialists came to power in 1933, and played an important role in social and economic life. It was the only German state-approved welfare educational home that maintained the ritual acts from Jewish customs and in this way commemorated the heyday of Jewish life.

In Rüdnitz there was a training camp of the Jewish Socialist-Zionist youth movement. There, between 1933 and 1941, Jüdish youths were prepared for their emigration to Palästina, where they received vocational training. In the Nähe of the station were prepared in the time many humans for their emigration.

In 1934, Jewish youths were forbidden to undergo manual or agricultural training. In order to immigrate to Palestine, however, Jews needed such training. For this reason, Hachshara camps were established for Jewish youths, where they could receive such training. In 1933, a Berlin lawyer, Dr. H. A. Meyer, bought an estate in Steckelsdorf to establish a camp for Bachad/Brith Chaluzim Datiim (Bund religiöser Pioniere). There could be accommodated about 30 to 100 people.

The country school home of Gertrud Feiertag consisted of six houses. At times, the summer house of Albert Einstein also belonged to them. In the main house were the classrooms, dining hall, dormitories, kitchen and office. The teachers lived in the former coach house.

In the Landwerk Neuendorf im Sande, to which about 375 hectares of land belonged, lived and worked young people and adults between 16 and 40 years, including some families with their young children. Exact figures are not known for the individual years.