Burials took place at the new Jewish cemetery on Heerstraße between 1913 and 1943. The memorial includes the central development with the linden trees, the 13 Jewish gravestones, the memorial stone for the Shoah and the gravestones for the 22 Soviet forced laborers who were buried here during the Second World War.
There is also an information board with the locations where the Stolpersteine were laid, which can also be visited via a marked circular route. Other places of remembrance of Jewish fellow citizens are a memorial stone at Kirchstr. 17 and the old Jewish cemetery at Schwarzenberg, which was replaced by the new one due to the difficulty of access.
The information board around the Stolpersteine in the town center invites you to take a walk through Meinerzhagen (see also the attached image files):
Welcome to the Jewish Life in Meinerzhagen circular trail. The approx. 1.5 km long route leads along the ten places where Stolpersteine were laid [insert: two yellow symbols see legend with 1 and 10 in between hyphen], one of the two memorial plaques of the town of Meinerzhagen [red squares A + B] and the former site of the Jewish prayer room [red square C].
The two Jewish cemeteries on the Schwarzenberg (1.3 km) and on Heerstraße (1 km) are also easily accessible from here. Their history and the names of those who died here are told on information boards on site. Only at the new cemetery are graves and gravestones preserved. They also bear witness to more than 125 years of Jewish life in Meinerzhagen.
One stone - one name - one person
There are 47 Stumbling Stones for Jewish fellow citizens at the ten places where they were laid.
Their families had their home here, worked as livestock and greengrocers, sold clothes and fabrics, were members of singing, gymnastics or shooting clubs. During the National Socialist era, they were humiliated and disenfranchised. Bans on selling and trading deprived them of their livelihood. In the end, they were forced to flee abroad or deported and murdered as nameless numbers. The Stumbling Stones in front of their last freely chosen place of residence give them back their name and dignity, they are once again "among us".
Detailed information on the tour and individual fates can be found in the flyer of the Stolpersteine Meinerzhagen-Kierspe initiative in the tourist information office [symbol ( i )], via the QR code I or the homepage www.Stolpersteine-Meinerzhagen.de. You can also use the QR code Ii to access the WDR app "Stolpersteine NRW-Gegen das Vergessen". It offers the individual biography for each stone, in some cases with additional material such as photos, audio or graphic stories.
Text source: Stolpersteine Meinerzhagen / Christina Först
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