Dieren
The Jewish community of Dieren dates to the last quarter of the
nineteenth century. In 1878, the Jews of Dieren were given
permission to hold synagogue services in a room in the village
school house. At the time, the Dieren community officially belonged
to the Jewish community of Doesburg; it was not until 1882 that the
Dieren community gained independent status.
In 1884, the Dieren community
consecrated a synagogue on the Stockvischstraat (today the
Spoorstraat). The new synagogue's furnishings and ceremonial
objects were from a no longer extant synagogue in Deventer. Almost
a decade later, the Dieren community purchased ground for a
cemetery near the Goudakkers, today the Diepenbrocklaan. Jewish
religious lessons were given in Dieren from 1884 until 1942. A
schoolhouse was dedicated in 1898.
Jewish organizations in Dieren
included the synagogue council, a burial society, a social club,
and two women's societies, one of which cared for the interior and
ceremonial objects of the synagogue. As to the circumstances of the
community, in 1901 twenty-five percent of the Jewish population of
Dieren required some degree of financial aid.
During the first decades of the twentieth century, economic
development in the region led to the growth of the local Jewish
population. In addition, about twenty Jewish refugees from Germany
settled in Dieren during the 1930's.
In the autumn of 1942, 139 Jewish slave laborers were quartered in
a villa on the Zutphensestraatweg. They had been conscripted to
work on construction at the Avegoor estate in nearby Ellecom which
was used by the Dutch SS as a training school from 1941 to 1943.
The slave laborers were severely mistreated during their stay in
Dieren, causing three of the group to die while working at Avegoor.
In November, 1942 the rest of the group was sent to the transit
camp at Westerbork. Most of the Jews of Dieren were deported via
Westerbork to Nazi death camps in 1943.
The Dieren community
was not reestablished after the war; it was officially incorporated
into the Jewish community of Arnhem in 1950. The cemetery has been cared for
by the municipality of Rhenen since 1966.
The synagogue was sold in 1952. The building housed a church
from 1983.
From April 2005, the Foundation "De Dierense Shul" is dedicated to
restoring the former Synagogue in Dieren to its original function.
The Foundation was able to acquire the building in
April 2007. After restoration the synagogue has been
reconsecrated on 7 March 2010. Now services of the liberal Jewish
community take place in the synagogue.
In 1998, a monument was unveiled in Ellecom in memory of the
murdered slave laborers.
Jewish population of Dieren:
| 1809 | 8 |
| 1840 | 37 |
| 1869 | 46 |
| 1899 | 70 |
| 1930 | 114 |
Collectie en mediatheek
Dossier
Dossiers (158) van de Commissie voor Oorlogsschade mbt 155 joodse
gemeentes (Amsterdam en mediene), 1945-1950.
Collectie > Documenten > 00005954
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FIRMA D. KATZ
1937
Tekst met in het midden een foto van een mansportret door Rembrandt.
Collectie > Museumstukken > 07598
Kleerhanger
1886-1990
Houten klerenhanger met metalen haakje van de firma De Magneet.
Op de zijkant tekst in zwarte letters.
Collectie > Museumstukken > 11784
Prentbriefkaart
1905 (ca.)
Prentbriefkaart van de Kerkstraat in Dieren met 'de Magneet',
manufacturenwinkel van Jacob Levie, circa 1906.
Collectie > Fotos > 40005761
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[geen titel]
1919
titel, [geen titel]. bron, Nieuw Isr. Weekblad, vol. 54(1919), nr. 36, p. 3. materiaal,
bericht. trefwoorden, Dieren jubileum synagoge. signatuur, micro-fiche.
Collectie > Joodse pers > 20000756
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Sigaren uit Dieren : over sigaren, sigarenfabrikanten, sigarenmakers, sigarenverkopers...
1993
Sigaren uit Dieren : over sigaren, sigarenfabrikanten,
sigarenmakers, sigarenverkopers en tabak.
Collectie > Literatuur > 11509535
