The arrangement of the
Jewish graveyard wasn’t limited to financial aid
during the Weimar republic by the mayors of Heumar
and Wahn. Notes from a local meeting show that the
religious classes of the Israelite children were
favored as well. The gradual decline of the Jewish
population was noticeable well before Hitler gained
power. During the 1930’s a lot of Jews left Porz and
moved to other areas. The essential reason was that
the economic living conditions of the Jews had
become increasingly worse in the administrative
district. There are only few information about this
progress of emigration.
Sources show that some Jews now live in New York or
South America. However, there are also Jews who have
returned to their native countries. Else Kahn-Tobias
visited Porz very often from her native country
England since then. Anyhow, there were people who
have given way to the pressure of the Nazi regime
and left Porz forever. The brothers Dülken sold
their wood company they established in Porz in1900
to ensure their existence in the Netherlands. The
company L. Krages & Co. o. H. took over „wood trade
and company of industrial arrangements“ on June 21st
1937. The big Jewish business of Meirowsky also got
sold on 9/3/1937 to the Dielektra AG. The fact that
the local section leader arranged the renaming of
Jewish streets shows that there was increasing class
hatred. Thus Meirowskystraße was renamed as "Georg-Ohm-Straße".
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Jews who emigrated inbetween 1933 and 1939
