Street & Locale Names

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.

The street's name commemorates the founder of the Jewish orphanage in Paderborn. The street is located at the Jewish cemetery and runs along the grounds of the university.

The writer's parents' house stood in Bachstraße. The footpath along the Pader springs is named after her.

The origin of the name is unclear.

After the family of Jews from Borgholz, popularly known as Jühen, who settled there around the middle of the 17th century.