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Minutes of a Meeting to Reconstitute the Jewish Congregation in Hamburg, July 1945
https://dx.doi.org/10.23691/jgo:source-69.en.v1
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Institute for the History of the German Jews
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On July 8, 1945, a Sunday, twelve Hamburg Jews gathered in the
apartment of Chaim Golenzer at Rutschbahn 25a, a so-called
“Judenhaus,” with the intention to reorganize the congregation
that had previously been eradicated by the National Socialist regime.
They were all former members of Hamburg's German-Israelite
Congregation. The meeting was opened by Josef Gottlieb, who had
probably initiated the founding of a new Jewish congregation in
Hamburg. However, those present were not the only ones interested in a
reorganization of the former congregation. The meeting's minutes of
July 8 mention roughly 80 Jews who had “been in touch.” An undated
appeal whose title reads “preparations are made to revive our old
Jewish congregation” lists the names of 77 men and 25 women. The
minutes show that the meeting of these twelve individuals was not
simply intended to be an informal discussion, but that it had been
conceived of with a specific purpose.
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