Hengelo (G)
In 1750, two Jewish families lived in Hengelo. By 1787, the
adult Jewish population was sufficiently large to enable the
regular gathering of a quorum of ten men (minyan) for prayers held
in a synagogue in a private home. In 1789, the community was
assigned a plot of land along the Varsseveldseweg to use as its
cemetery.
During the first decade of the nineteenth century,
the Jewish population of Hengelo grew to the point that the
community received independent status. This status, however, lasted
only until 1821, when the Hengelo community was placed under the
aegis of that of Doetinchem.
Nevertheless, in 1822, the Jews of Hengelo consecrated a synagogue
of their own in a collapsing storage shed on the Hofstraat. The
building was repaired in 1837. The community regained its
independence during the 1870's and two years later built a new
synagogue in the Korte Hofstraat. The community opened a school of
its own in 1875, however by 1911 the school had closed. Thereafter,
the small number of Jewish children in Hengelo received their
Jewish education from a teacher from nearby Lochem. The synagogue council of
Hengelo consisted of two members. The community established a
council for aid to the poor in 1892.
Under the German occupation of the Netherlands during the Second
World War only a few Hengelo Jews succeeded in going into hiding.
The rest were deported and murdered. Germans and members of the
Dutch collaborationist NSB party burned a number of the Hengelo
community's Torah scrolls. The Torah scrolls that came through the
war undamaged were later sent to Israel along with a portion of the
other remaining ceremonial objects belonging to the community.
Those ceremonial objects that were not sent to Israel were divided
amongst a number of Jewish communities in the Netherlands.
The Hengelo synagogue was sold soon after the war and razed some
years later. The name of the street where the synagogue was
located, Korte Hofstraat, was later changed to Synagogestraat
(Synagogue Street). The Jewish community of Hengelo was
administratively dissolved in 1947 and added to the jurisdiction of
the community at Zutphen. The Jewish cemetery at
Hengelo was cleared away in 1965. The remains of the dead were
exhumed and, together with the cemetery's gravestones, brought to
the Jewish cemetery at Zutphen.
A monument in the Raadhuisstraat in in Zutphen commemorates local
residents who fell during the Second World War. Of the 56 names
inscribed on the monument, 32 are those of murdered Jews from
Hengelo.
Jewish population of Hengelo, Province of Gelderland:
| 1809 | 22 |
| 1840 | 37 |
| 1869 | 41 |
| 1899 | 43 |
| 1930 | 39 |
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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Objectfoto
1970-1980
Foto's (2) van een schilderij en een tekening van Agnes van de Brandeler uit
omstreeks 1955 van de synagoge in Hengelo (Gld.), ca. 1970-1980.
Collectie > Fotos > 40012693
Prentbriefkaart
1931 (ca.)
Prentbriefkaart met gezicht op Hengelo (G) met links
op de kaart de synagoge, circa 1931.
Collectie > Fotos > 40006164
[Binnenlandse berichten (3)] : Arnhem
1906
Verslag van de viering van het tienjarig bestaan van de vereniging "Mekor Chajiem"./
De heer JM Wolff is gekozen tot voorzitter van de Isr. gemeenten en van het ...
Collectie > Joodse pers > 20000277
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Joodse oorlogsmonumenten in de provincie Gelderland : alsmede algemene...
2005
Joodse oorlogsmonumenten in de provincie Gelderland : alsmede algemene
oorlogsmonumenten waarop joodse namen voorkomen.
Collectie > Literatuur > 12013463
