Care and Welfare

The Ferdinand Gamburg Lodge LXXII No. 654 U.O.B. was the Hanau lodge of the Independent Order B'nai B'rith. On January 16, 1910, lodge brothers founded the lodge in honor of the late benefactor. In 1937, the Lodge was dissolved.

The RVJD moves into the residential and business premises at Laerstraße 9 of the Jewish businesswoman Julie Stern (linen and wool factory) as the headquarters of the Westphalia district office.

The Jewish Welfare Center was founded in 1867 as an Israelite asylum for the sick and infirm. In the 1890s it was decided to build a new building on Ottostra&szlig. The inauguration took place on 19.2.1908. At the instigation of the medical director, Dr. Auerbach, the facility met the most modern requirements. During WW1, the asylum provided up to 200 hospital beds. The asylum managed to survive the crises of the Weimar period. The necessary modernizations due to the enormous burden of the war years could only be financed gradually.