Ter Apel
Jews lived in Ter Apel from the beginning of the 19th century
on. An organized Jewish community was established in approximately
1875 and was officially recognized as independent in 1885.
In the early years of Jewish life in Ter Apel religious services
were held in a rented room on the Boetseweg in the village of
Roswinkel. By 1881, Ter Apel had emerged as the center of Jewish
life in the surroundings, which included the villages of Roswinkel,
Sellingen, and Munnikemoer. A synagogue was opened in Ter Apel in
1883. Three Jewish cemeteries eventually were established in the
surroundings. The first, located on the Roswinkelstraatweg in
Roswinkel, was in use until 1886. The second, in the village of De
Maten, remained in use until 1870. The third, located in Ter Apel,
was inaugurated in 1886.
The
board governing the Ter Apel community consisted of three members.
The community's children received their Jewish education from a
religious teacher. The only voluntary organization was a burial
society, founded in 1902. The burial society also organized visits
to the sick and evening study sessions.
In 1942, during the World War II German occupation of the
Netherlands, Sellingerbeetse, a forced labor camp for Jewish
inmates was established near the village of Sellingen. The
approximately 300 slave laborers who registered in the camp in
September, 1942 were deported via the detention camp at Westerbork
to Nazi death camps in Eastern Europe. Most of the Jews of Ter Apel
was deported and murdered as well. Only a few of Ter Apel's Jews
managed to survive the war in hiding.
The Jewish community at Ter Apel was officially dissolved in 1948
and the locale placed under the jurisdiction of the Jewish
community at Stadskanaal. The synagogue was
during the war and in the post-war years was sold to the
municipality of Vlagtwedde and later razed. The
Jewish cemeteries at the Ter Apel and De Maten are now maintained
by the local authorities at Vlagtwedde. The cemetery at Roswinkel
is maintained by the municipality of Emmen. In 1998, the cemetery at
Roswinkel was cleaned and repaired by the Stichting
Landschapsbeheer Drenthe (The Foundation for the Protection of
the Landscape of the Province of Drenthe).
In 2004, a monument was unveiled at the corner of the Oosterstraat
en de Schotslaan, the site of the former synagogue, in memory of
the 49 Jews of Ter Apel murdered during the Second World War.
Jewish population of Ter Apel and surroundings:
| 1849 | 5 |
| 1911 | 71 |
| 1924 | 60 |
Collectie en mediatheek
Dossier
Dossiers (158) van de Commissie voor Oorlogsschade mbt 155 joodse
gemeentes (Amsterdam en mediene), 1945-1950.
Collectie > Documenten > 00005954
Overzichtsfoto
1960 (ca.)
Exterieur synagoge van Ter Apel, circa 1960.
Collectie > Fotos > 40001222
Zitting der Centrale Commissie op Woensdag 18 Juni 1879.
Verslag van een vergadering van de Centrale Commissie.
Collectie > Joodse pers > 20029840
meer treffers in Collectie > Joodse pers
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
