Documents:

2 July 1892:   Invitation to the

25th Anniversary Celebration of the Beckum Synagogue

Officiating: Teacher J. Osterman

9 Sep 1925:  Lilly and Jacob Raphael.  Marriage Certificate, Beckum

Heinz (Zeev) Raphael.  Birth Certficate, Beckum 2 Feb 1927

30 Jan 1927:  "Kind Rafael": 

Weight diagram 

1 June 1928:   Heinz (Zeev) Raphael 

Inoculation certificate 

Issued by Dr Walter Kronenberg who later lived in Nahariya, Israel

 

July 1933.  Gardefest  in Beckum

Photos taken from window at Nordstrasse 8

28 March 1934:  Heinz (Zeev) Raphael

School report card  

Grade 1

1938:  The Community House under the Swastika

Photo taken after 1938 Pogromnacht

(Note: Hebrew inscription over entrance has been removed)

The front part of the building with

the school - first floor

the teacher's quarter - ground floor

Photo: From Hugo Krick's book

 

1980: Letter to Beckum Town Council

Protest at disregard of fate of Beckum Jewish Community

in Jubilee Volume for 750th Anniversary of Beckum

(page 1 of letter)

2 April 1987:  Ceremony at Beckum Rathaus

On the occasion of publication of the book JEWS IN BECKUM.

Address by Dr Diethard Aschoff

 

1988:  Official Invitation to visit Beckum

22 Sep 1988: Invitation by the Mayor of Beckum

12 Oct 1988:  Decline of Invitation

 

8 Nov 1998: Kristallnacht Memorial Service

at the Emek Shalom Holocaust Memorial, Richmond VA:

Honoring Hugo Krick - who "at great risk to his career, his standing in his

religious community and his personal safety, has courageously  reminded

the people of Beckum,  Germany for sixty years about the inhuman attack

that occurred there in 1938."

 

Credit for initiating this Ceremony, and for securing the Certificate of Recognition

                 is due to Mrs Inge Horowitz of Richmond VA

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