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The Sieger\u00adland region of southern West\u00adphalia is one of the regions in Germany where for centuries, Jews were not allowed to settle. The oldest docu\u00admented mention of Jews in Siegen dates back to 1253, but the medieval Jewish community was probably erased during the plague pogroms of 1349\/50. Until the Napo\u00adleonic period (around 1800), the Princely House of Nassau denied Jews the right of residence in Sieger\u00adland. Only when Jews were granted more rights and freedoms in the German provinces (under the influence of the French Revo\u00adlu\u00adtion (1789) and the Enligh\u00adten\u00adment) was it possible for a Jewish family to settle in Siegen in 1815, for the first time since the Middle Ages. However, it took another three decades before the city granted them citi\u00adzen\u00adship in 1843.<\/p>\n
The beginning of signi\u00adfi\u00adcant Jewish life in Siegen can be traced back to 1867 when several Jewish families from the neigh\u00adboring Sauerland and Witt\u00adgen\u00adstein moved to the growing indus\u00adtrial city. In 1884 they founded a congre\u00adga\u00adtion, which built a synagogue twenty years later (1904). However, the community, which usually numbered around a hundred members, did not last more than six decades: in February 1943, the last Siegen Jews were deported to National Socialist exter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion camps. Before that, on November 10, 1938, Siegen SS and SA men had set fire to and destroyed the synagogue. Since 1945, only a few Jews have lived in Siegen.<\/p>\n
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These words are dedicated to those who died
because death is a punish\u00adment
because death is a reward
because death is the final rest
because death is eternal rage
These words are dedicated to those who died
Bashert<\/p>\n
These words are dedicated to those who survived
because life is a wilder\u00adness and they were savage
because life is an awakening and they were alert
because life is flowering and they blossomed
because life is a struggle and they struggled
because life is a gift and they were free to accept it
These words are dedicated to those who survived
Bashert<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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EXCERPT FROM THE POEM \u201eBASHERT\u201c BY IRENA KLEPFISZ<\/p>\n
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