Welcome to the Stolzenau Jewish
Cemetery Home Page
My interest in Stolzenau, a
small town located beside the Weser River about 46 km west-north-west of
Hannover, stems from the fact that my ancestors lived there throughout the 18th,
19th, and early 20th
centuries. It is possible that my
ancestors may have lived in this region in earlier centuries too - Jews have
lived in Germany since the time of the Roman Empire. But so far, I have not been able to determine
my family history before 1700.
I visited Stolzenau in 1996
and photographed most of the gravestones in the Jewish cemetery. By translating the the Hebrew gravestone
inscriptions, and studying archival records from the State Archive in Hannover,
I was able to construct the family trees of most of the Jews who were resident
in Stolzenau in the 19th century.
In the cemetery, I was able to find gravestones of my own ancestors
going back seven generations. I am
directly related to the Goldschmidt, Hildesheimer, and Hammerschlag families,
and also related by marriage to several other families.
This web site is a work in
progress. If you find its contents
interesting and wish to contact me (ich kann auch Deutsch lesen), my
e-mail address is:
Norman Streat, Vancouver,
Canada
Stolzenau
Cemetery Pages
The links
below lead to individual pages for each gravestone showing:
- a photo (in most cases)
- a transcription of the Hebrew
and/or German inscription
- an English translation of the
inscription
- other notes
Adobe
Acrobat Reader is required to view some of these pages. 
Links:
- Schematic map of
the northwest corner (contains the oldest gravestones)
- List of
gravestones, by photo number
- List of
gravestones, by date
- List of
gravestones, by family name
Descendant Charts (Family Trees)
These pages can be viewed
without Adobe Acrobat Reader
·
BLUMENFELD family
·
ELLE family
·
GOLDSCHMIDT Family
·
HAMMERSCHLAG &
HILDESHEIMER Families
·
LINNEMANN Family
·
LIPMANN Family
·
LÖWENSTEIN Family
·
WEINBERG Family
Text Files
History of the
Jews of Stolzenau by Norman Streat
History of the Jews of
Stolzenau by Dr. Fritz Goldschmidt (in English – or see German original
below)
Beitrag zur Geschichte der Judengemeinden im
ehemaligen hannoverschen Kreis Stolzenau – Dr. Fritz Goldschmidt
History of the Jews of Stolzenau from a
brochure “Stolzenau im Zentrum”
Acknowledgements
While the following list of
names is far from complete, I would like to acknowledge just a few of the
people who provided me with invaluable assistance in preparing the information
contained in these pages:
·
Günter
Schmidt-Bollmann of Bremen, Germany
·
Bernd-Wilhelm
Linnemeier of Münster, Germany
·
Robert
Lipman of Bethesda, Maryland, USA
·
Vera
Hildesheimer of Chicago, Illinois, USA (deceased)
·
Lore
Streat (née Goldschmidt) of London, England (deceased)
·
Grete
Weinberg (née Goldschmidt) of Freiburg, Germany (deceased)
·
Relatives
of the late Dr. Fritz Goldschmidt of New York, NY, USA