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DISAPPEARED COMMUNITIES

At the eve of the concentration camps, many of these communities disappeared.

Some prominent Jewish communities in the ''Mediene'' who were totally destroyed by the Nazis include:

  • Apeldoorn (1030 Jewish inhabitants in 1930, community merged with the Jewish communities of Deventer and Zutphen in 2000)

  • Winschoten (510 Jewish inhabitants in 1930, community abolished in 1964)

  • Dordrecht (322 Jewish inhabitants in 1930, community merged with the Jewish community of Rotterdam in 1987)

  • Meppel (304 Jewish inhabitants in 1930, community merged with the Jewish community of Zwolle in 1964)

  • Gouda (223 Jewish inhabitants in 1930, community merged with the Jewish community of Rotterdam in 1964)

  • Hoogezand-Sappemeer (222 Jewish inhabitants in 1930, community abolished in 1948)

  • Lochem (125 Jewish inhabitants in 1930, community abolished in 1947)

  • Dieren (114 Jewish inhabitants in 1930, community abolished in 1950)

  • Groenlo (105 Jewish inhabitants in 1930, community abolished in 1950)


Other Jewish communities in the ''Mediene'' greatly declined because of the Holocaust (note: Jewish inhabitants are counted on affiliation to the local Jewish community/communities):
  • The Hague (10,605 Jewish inhabitants in 1930, 284 Jewish inhabitants in 1998)

  • Rotterdam (10,515 Jewish inhabitants in 1930, 246 Jewish inhabitants in 1998)

  • Groningen (2408 Jewish inhabitants in 1930, 53 Jewish inhabitants in 1998)

  • Arnhem (1389 Jewish inhabitants in 1930, 70 Jewish inhabitants in 1998)

  • Leeuwarden (733 Jewish inhabitants in 1930, 45 Jewish inhabitants in 1998)

  • Assen (581 Jewish inhabitants in 1930, 51 Jewish inhabitants in 1998)

  • Nijmegen (450 Jewish inhabitants in 1930, 30 Jewish inhabitants in 1998)


It should be noted that the tremendous decline and disappearance of dozens of Jewish communities throughout the Netherlands was not only due to the large numbers of Dutch Jews killed during the Holocaust, but also due to large-scale post-Holocaust emigration to countries like Israel and the United States , and migration within the Netherlands from the ''Mediene'' to Amsterdam.


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