Street & Locale Names

In 1941, the city of Paderborn had underground reservoirs and open ponds built as part of preventive air-raid protection measures. These included the Warburger Straße / Peter-Hille-Weg pond, which was also designed as a retention basin for rainwater. It was dug by the inmates of the so-called retraining camp „Grüner Weg“. See also "Das jüdische Umschulungs- und Einsatzlager Grüner Weg"  in the category "Bildung". 

In the immediate vicinity of the university grounds is Grünebaumstraße, named after the Grünebaum merchant family, who moved here from Geseke in the 19th century and owned the Steinberg & Grünebaum department store and the current Haus Grünebaum on Rathausplatz. See also the article „Commemorative plaque Haus Grünebaum“ at Rathausplatz 7 in 33098 Paderborn.

The Emilie-Rosenthal-Weg, which was given its name in 1995, is located in the Paderaue. It ends at the southern entrance to the village of Schloßlig; Neuhaus on Schloßlig;e. Only a little further towards the town center, on both sides of the street, used to be the facilities and buildings of the Neuhäuser Mühlenwerke, owned and co-owned by the Rosenthal family from 1873 to 1939. The socially committed senior boss Emilie Rosenthal (1861-1943) – she particularly supported the Neuhäuser Andreas-Winter-Hospital – perished in Theresienstadt. (Picture of the street sign)

The Padersteinweg has commemorated the banker and councillor of commerce Emil Paderstein (1846-1929), owner of the Paderborn banking house of the same name, head of the Jewish community, city councillor and generous supporter of charitable and non-profit causes, since 1987.

The foot and cycle path through the Pader floodplain runs parallel to the Pader, the river whose name the family chose at the beginning of the 19th century.

In the course of 1941, the Nazi leadership initiated the physical extermination of European Jewry.After systematic shootings of Jews in Poland and individual large-scale evacuations of Jews to Poland had already taken place in 1939/40, the planned deportation of Jews from the Reich to the East began in the fall of 1941, centrally controlled from Berlin. The numerous organizational issues involved were the subject of the famous „Wannsee Conference“ of 20 January 1942.

In the course of 1941, the Nazi leadership initiated the physical extermination of European Jewry.

After systematic shootings of Jews in Poland and individual large-scale evacuations of Jews to Poland had already taken place in 1939/40, the planned deportation of Jews from the territory of the Reich to the East began in the fall of 1941, centrally controlled from Berlin. The numerous organizational issues involved were the subject of the reported „Wannsee Conference“ of 20 January 1942.

After the city of Paderborn had Plexiglas plaques with information on the history of the buildings installed on various listed buildings at the end of the 1990s, the GCJZ initiated such a plaque for the former Steinberg & Grünebaum department store at Rathausplatz 7 in 2001. After experiencing marginalization in the city, Ludwig Grünebaum’s imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp and the forced expropriation of their business, the members of the family were able to flee to the USA between 1937 and 1939 in time to avoid deportation by the National Socialists.

In the 2023/2024 school year, class 10a of Paderborn's Reismann-Gymnasium dealt with the topic of „anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination in OWL – then and now“. One result is a memorial plaque (pictures) on the school building on Reismannweg, developed with the support of the city archives and the Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit (GCJZ). The memorial plaque commemorates twelve Jewish pupils in the years 1933 - 1937 who were forced to leave the former Reismann Oberrealschule.

The Jewish merchant and trained master tailor Simon (called Sally) Lennhoff (1871–1943) was posthumously honored on October 22, 1987. A 32-metre-long pedestrian passageway from Marktstrasse 8 to the parking lot of the Soltau City Service Centre has borne his name ever since - the Sally Lennhoff Walkway.

Sally Lennhoff and his family were victims of National Socialist persecution. His business was destroyed during the Kristallnacht in November 1938. He was later deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where he died on November 26 or 27, 1943 as a result of mistreatment.

The Jewish cattle farmer Simon Aron (1839-1926) worked for 43 years as an elected honorary overseer of the poor and district leader for the town of Soltau. He was also a co-founder of the Soltau Liedertafel in 1887. He bequeathed his estate to the town for the preservation and maintenance of the Jewish cemetery on Böningweg. This was significant, as cemeteries belonging to Jewish communities were historically often endangered. In 1936, the funds left behind, which were to be used for specific purposes, were confiscated by the then mayor Willy Klapproth.