Zwartsluis
Jews
settled in Zwartsluis late in the 17th century. An organized Jewish
community had begun to take shape in Zwartsluis early in the 18th
century. By 1722, the community opened a cemetery on the Leeuwarder
Schans (also known as the Kleine Schans). The cemetery was also
used by the Jews of nearby Meppel.
The first synagogue in Zwartsluis was in operation as early as the
18th century but the exact date of its founding is not known. By
the mid-19th century the synagogue was at the point of collapse.
The Zwartsluis community constructed a new synagogue with an annex
building for religious study on the Baanstraat in 1851. A new
cemetery was opened behind the new synagogue. The old synagogue
building was sold in 1852. The Zwartsluis community founded a
religious school sometime during the 1840s and constructed a new
schoolhouse in 1873.
The Jewish community at Zwartsluis was governed by two managers.
Voluntary organizations included a women's society for the
maintenance of the furnishings of the synagogue and a Torah study
fellowship. Until the middle of the 19th century, most Jews living
in Zwartsluis worked as butchers or ritual slaughterers; by the end
of the 19th century most had come to work in the textile
industry.
Under the World War II German occupation of the Netherlands almost
all of the Jews of Zwartsluis were deported and murdered; only a
few managed to survive the war in hiding. Only one of the Jews
deported from the town returned alive after the war. During the
war, the Zwartsluis synagogue was used as a storage place for the
contents of the houses of deported Jews.
The Jewish community at Zwartsluis was dissolved in 1948 and the
locale placed within the jurisdiction of the Jewish community at Zwolle. The
former synagogue building was sold and converted into a carpenter's
workplace. The building was razed in 1969. The old Jewish cemetery
was cleared away however the Jewish cemetery on the Baanstraat
still remains. It is currently maintained by the local authorities.
A monument to the murdered Jews of Zwartsluis was erected in the
cemetery in 1984. The building that once housed the Jewish school
has been restored; it is marked with a plaque that commemorates it
former function.
Jewish population in Zwartsluis:
| 1795 | 35 |
| 1809 | 37 |
| 1840 | 54 |
| 1869 | 120 |
| 1899 | 59 |
| 1930 | 25 |
Collectie en mediatheek
Dossier
Dossiers (158) van de Commissie voor Oorlogsschade mbt 155 joodse
gemeentes (Amsterdam en mediene), 1945-1950.
Collectie > Documenten > B0005954
Mizrach
1900-1925
Mizrach afkomstig uit voormalige synagoge Zwartsluis.
Collectie > Fotos > 40001920
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
De joodse gemeenten in de kop van Overijssel
1981
De joodse gemeenten in de kop van Overijssel.
Collectie > Literatuur > 11500270
