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families both morally and physically fell in its entirety to the Synagogen-
Gemeinde and its welfare organisations.
From the period immediately after the pogrom until early January 1939,
parents provided schooling arrangements for their children. No formal classes
took place. On 9 January 1939, the subject of compulsory schooling for Jewish
pupils re-emerged on the mayor’s agenda. 171 In his correspondence to the
provincial government, he reiterated the decision to dissolve the ‘Judenschule’ at
its former site. Owing to a shortage of school facilities in general and specifically
of the required segregated building and the necessary Jewish staff, the
‘Judenschule’ would remain temporarily closed. However, the mayor suggested
that until the situation could be resolved that lessons take place in the building
adjacent to the gutted Synagogen-Gemeinde, which belonged to the Jewish
community. Registered private Jewish teachers would be employed and the entire
cost born by the Synagogen-Gemeinde and the Reichsvertretung der Juden in
Deutschland. 172 The mayor received approval for this from the police
commissioner and suggested that a local teacher of English, Lilly Karger, be
engaged for the interim period. 173
On 8 March 1939, the mayor reported that the police commissioner had
granted permission for the ‘Judenschule’ to be re-established in the building next
door to the synagogue. Rooms were made available on the ground floor of this
building located at Große Schulstraße 2b. This information was conveyed to the
board of the Synagogen-Gemeinde, and the mayor requested their participation in
171 Betr.: Schulunterricht an Juden, 9. Januar 1939, Bestand Rep. C 28 II, Signatur Nr.
3996, LHASA MD, op. cit., pp. 27–28.
172 Ibid., p. 27.
173 Ibid.