Source Description
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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Recommended Citation
Minutes of a Meeting to Reconstitute the Jewish Congregation in Hamburg, July 1945 (translated by Insa Kummer), edited in: Key Documents of German-Jewish History,
<https://dx.doi.org/10.23691/jgo:source-69.en.v1> [December 04, 2024].