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Hagen-Hohenlimburg
04/28/1942
Hohenlimburg Jews in front of a waiting truck with an open loading area already loaded with luggage. Everyone looks directly at the photographer. A woman holds a large flowered bag in her hand. There is a chair in front of the tailboard of the truck to help the people get in.
Image: Stadtarchiv Hagen
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Historical context
Deportation von Hagen-Hohenlimburg nach Zamość im April 1942
On April 28, 1942, eleven people persecuted as Jews were taken by truck from the forecourt of the Hohenlimburg synagogue to Hagen's main train station. The synagogue and the school building had previously been used as so-called Judenhäuser (houses where Jews had to stay while awaiting deportation). All the people persecuted as Jews and still remaining in town were forcibly accommodated there.
The Jews from Hohenlimburg were taken from Hagen to Dortmund Süd, as were the Hattingen Jews. A total of 791 people were deported from Dortmund on April 30, 1942. Before being deported, they were interned in the gymnasium of the sports club "Eintracht" on Rheinlanddamm, which had been turned into an assembly camp. In Zamość, on May 24, 1942, some of the deportees were selected for forced labor. The others were murdered in the Bełżec or Sobibór extermination camps. The ghetto was dissolved in October 1942. No one survived the deportation.
About the image series
The four black-and-white photographs were taken on the forecourt of the synagogue of the Jewish community at Jahnstraße 46. They show, in all, eleven people with their luggage who have to climb onto a truck. They all wear unusually warm clothes for April. Two of the pictures show neighbors watching from the window. Police officers involved in the events can be seen in one photo.
Photographer
Rudolf Ante
According to the "Gedenkschrift zu Ehren der ehemaligen jüdischen Mitbürger Hohenlimburgs” (commemorative publication in honor of the former Jewish residents of Hohenlimburg) by Hermann Zabel and Adalbert Böning, the photographs are part of the estate of Rudolf Ante, the Hohenlimburg "Archivbetreuer” (keeper of archives).
Provenance
The pictures were probably taken for the local town chronicle. No other pictures of the deportation from Hohenlimburg have been preserved. The surviving photographs were in the estate of Rudolf Ante, a staff member of the town administration, who was in charge of the Hohenlimburg archives. The original prints became part of the holdings of Stadtarchiv Hagen (Hagen town archives).
Call number at source archive
FH1 001-486, FH1 001-491, FH1 014-886, FH1 014-887
Title at source archive
Deportation der Hohenlimburger Juden am 29.04.1942.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Stadtarchiv Hagen for providing the pictures. The information compiled here is based on research conducted by Dr. Ralf Blank and on the commemorative publication by Prof. Hermann Zabel and Adalbert Böning.
Text und Recherche: Malte Grünkorn.
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