Jewish History
in Wuppertal
Encouraged by their history teacher Ulrich Grote,
a group of Wuppertal high school students started working with the memorial
center “Alte Synagoge”. The students wanted to point out that
Jewish life in Wuppertal existed in the past and has come to life again.
In 1999 the students opened an exhibition in the “Alte Synagoge”
on the dispossession of Jewish property and boycott of Jewish life in Wuppertal.
For the opening ceremony, Dr. Hilde Rohlen-Wohlgemuth, whose father was the
owner of one of the largest department stores in Wuppertal, was the guest
of honor.
In 2000, the group opened an exhibition on the topic “Kindertransporte”.
These transports allowed children of Jewish families to leave Germany for
a safer life in another country. For this second exhibition, former children
who had been able to escape the Nazi-Regime with the so-called “Kindertransporte”
spent some days in their native town.
In addition to the exhibitions an essay appeared on the tragic event of the
so-called “Reichskristallnacht” in Wuppertal in the school's periodical.
Aryanization in Wuppertal
- an example
November
9th 1938 – The so-called “Reichskristallnacht” in Wuppertal
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