Street & Locale Names

The center is named after the German-Jewish Ärztin Rahel Hirsch (15.09.1870-06.10.1953). She was the first female doctor to be awarded the title of professor in Germany in 1913.

The street next to Berlin Central Station is named after the German Jewish doctor Rahel Hirsch (15.09.1870-06.10.1953). She was the first female doctor to be awarded the title of professor in Germany in 1913. The so-called Hirsch effect is also named after her: The permeability of the mucous membrane of the intestine and the subsequent excretion with the urine, which she discovered.

Inge Ransenberg was born on 12.03.1935 in Wennemen in the Sauerland region. At the age of just nine, the Jewish girl was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in October 1944. The story of the Ransenberg family shows in particular the different experiences of persecution that the Jewish population in rural Germany had during the National Socialist era. Inge's oldest brother Rolf Ransenberg was given the chance to emigrate to the USA in 1938 at the age of 14.

The Adolf Baer Platz is named after a Jewish citizen of Bad Wimpfen, to whom the Jewish poet Leopold Marx dedicated the poignant „Little Dachau Passion”.

Since 2007, the Ransohoffweg  refers to the Paderborn banker, Nikolaus Ransohoff (1856-1937), and his wife Selma (1864-1938), who were both involved in a variety of voluntary work. Selma Ransohoff was active as a volunteer in the Jewish Women's Association and the Fatherland Women's Association. In 1918, she was awarded the Cross of Merit for War Relief by Kaiser Wilhelm for her services in caring for the wounded and sick soldiers in the military hospitals. Nikolaus Ransohoff was a volunteer on the board of the German Red Cross and on the board of trustees of the Jüdischne Orphanage.

A stele cast in bronze has stood on the forecourt of the Westphalian School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Husener Strasse 13, sponsored by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, since 1990. It is the work of sculptor Werner Klenk, Oelde, who created it on behalf of the GCJZ Paderborn. The city of Paderborn provided financial support.

A stele, an approx. 1.60 m high stone, has stood in the green area on the corner of Hilligenbusch/Schulbrede since 1993. The stone bears a bronze plaque informing visitors that the cemetery of Paderborn's Jewish community was located here at the beginning of the 19th century, which donated the land to the city of Paderborn as a green space in 1930.

A path located on the university grounds was named after Dr. Albert Rose. Albert Rose was born in Paderborn in 1882. After graduating from the Theodoranium and studying law in Cologne and Berlin, Rose worked as a lawyer and notary in Paderborn. In 1942, Albert Rose was the last chairman of the synagogue and board member of the Jewish orphanage. After his arrest in the pogrom night of 1938 and imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp, among other places, Albert Rose emigrated to England and from there to the USA. He died there in California in 1969.

The square „An der Alten Synagoge“ was given its name in 1990. The naming of the previously nameless square at the suggestion of the GCJZ Paderborn was a small intermediate step in the efforts and controversial discussions over the years about an appropriate form of commemoration of the annihilated Jewish community at the site of the synagogue destroyed in 1938.