Pogrom-Night, November 9/10, 1938
Since 1933, people of the Jewish faith suffered systematic exclusion and disenfranchisement in the Nazi state through calls for boycotts, bans on occupation, education, residence and contact as a result of so-called "race laws" - and this was also the case in Flensburg. Some of the families oppressed here emigrated, others moved to Hamburg or Berlin in the false hope of protective anonymity. And some committed suicide in desperation. With the pogrom night of 9/10 November 1938, the pseudo-legality of race law radicalised into police-coordinated state terror, including the destruction of Jewish institutions and the persecution, mistreatment and murder of Jewish citizens. In Flensburg the windows of the "Kleinpreis" shop at Holm 41 were smashed.
In the house at Große Str. 15/19, Gestapo forces broke into the apartment of the elderly Lazarus couple, destroyed the furniture, arrested the frightened residents and deported the son Heinrich to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
The Jägerslust estate in Flensburg-Weiche was also raided, devastated and looted by civilian-clad SS, SA and police-units. The Jewish owner family Wolff was arrested, the injured landowner Alexander Wolff was forced over the nearby border to Denmark, the Jewish agricultural students of the "Hachscharah" farm Jägerslust were deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In 1939 and far below its value, the orphaned estate was forcibly "aryanized" for the purpose of "re-forming German peasantry", but after the beginning of WW II it soon was transferred to the Luftwaffe for an expansion of the Flensburg airfield.(1)
Broder Schwensen
(1) Bernd Philipsen: „Jägerslust“. Gutshof. Kibbuz. Flüchtlingslager. Militär-Areal, Flensburg 2008. – Ders.: Der Weg nach Auschwitz begann auch in Flensburg, in: Paul/ Schwensen/ Wulf: Ausgebürgert. Ausgegrenzt. Ausgesondert. Flensburg 1998, S.235 ff. – Bettina Goldberg: Juden in Flensburg, Flensburg 2006, S. 61 ff.
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