Bourtange
The first records of Jews residing in Bourtange date to the
1720's. At first, the Jews of Bourtange belonged to the Jewish
community of nearby Pekela but, by 1835, the Bourtange community
achieved independent status and a synagogue of its own. The small
building, located on the Batterijstraat, was rebuilt
several times during the nineteenth century.
Between 1840 and 1895, the community
buried its dead in a cemetery on the Oude Jodenkerkhoflaan
(literally, the Old Jewish Cemetery Lane). Roughly a dozen
gravestones still remain at this site. From 1897 on, the community
used a new cemetery, De Stobben, midway between Bourtange and the
village of Vlagtwedde, which had an independent Jewish community of
its own between 1895 and 1923. Twenty-six stones still remain at
this site.
By the late nineteenth century, the Jewish population of Bourtange
had peaked. It declined slowly thereafter.
During the Second World War almost
all the Jews of Bourtange were deported to Nazi death camps in
Poland. Only a few managed to survive the war in hiding. In 1948,
the Bourtange community was merged into the Jewish community of the
town of Stadskanaal. The Bourtange synagogue was
then sold. Since 1989, the former synagogue building has housed the
The Jewish Synagogue Museum. A plaque at the museum bears the names
of the Bourtange Jews deported and murdered during the War. In
2000, a reconstruction of the Bourtange community's former Mikve
was opened at the museum.
The municipality of Sellingen maintains what remains of the Jewish
cemeteries at Bourtange en Vlagtwedde.
Jewish population of Bourtange and surroundings:
| 1809 | 27 |
| 1849 | 37 |
| 1892 | 81 |
| 1930 | 55 |
Collectie en mediatheek
Dossier
Dossiers (158) van de Commissie voor Oorlogsschade mbt 155 joodse
gemeentes (Amsterdam en mediene), 1945-1950.
Collectie > Documenten > B0005954
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Overzichtsfoto
1980 (ca.)
De joodse begraafplaats in Bourtange.
Collectie > Fotos > 40000356
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Centrale Commissie tot de Algemeene Zaken van het Ned. Isr. Kerkgenootschap.
Eerste deel van het verslag van een vergadering van de Centrale Commissie.
Collectie > Joodse pers > 20061545
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Klein en groot zijn daar gelijk : de Joodse begraafplaatsen in de provincie Groningen
2009
Klein en groot zijn daar gelijk : de Joodse begraafplaatsen in de provincie Groningen.
Collectie > Literatuur > 12015341
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Sprekende beelden : getuigenverhalen bij oorlogsmonumenten [DVD 3]
2009
Persoonlijke verhalen achter negen oorlogsmonumenten.
Collectie > Audiovisueel > 40002075
