Jewish Community

Dela Wikkerink-Eppink with Aron Jedwab alias Willem Herfstink

Aron Jedwab (Willem Herfstink)

Jewish ‘foundling’, born in hiding.
Gate, Jewish Cemetery, Haartsestraat, Aalten

Jewish Cemetery Aalten

Cemetery on Haartsestraat, dating from around 1820.
Jewish Cemetery, Bredevoort

Jewish Cemetery Bredevoort

Cemetery on Prins Mauritsstraat, dating from circa 1830.
Synagogue Aalten - New Israelite Weekly, 29-01-1965

Jewish life in Aalten

New Israelite Weekly, January 29, 1965
Members of the Jewish community in 1932

Jews in Aalten and Bredevoort

The first Jews in Aalten were documented around 1630.
Stolpersteine, Eerste Broekdijk 51, Aalten

Stolpersteine (stumbling stones)

These stones are laid in front of addresses from which people were deported by the
Oud Aalten

The Jewish community of Aalten in 1813

List of Jewish residents in the municipality of Aalten in 1813.
Amalia and Frits Landau-Lorch (photo: Aalten Vooruit)

Where are Frits and Amalia Landau?

The Jewish couple Landau were executed and buried by the resistance during WWII. But where?