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Picture on the left: The school building on St.-Apern-Straße in 1937. © NS-Documentation Centre of the City of Cologne
Picture on the right: © Joshua Esters / LVR-Zentrum für Medien und Bildung
St. Apern Strasse school centre
A Jewish school centre in Cologne
Albertusstraße 26, 50667
Next to the synagogue of the Orthodox community Adass Jeschurun was a four-storey building housing a teachers’ training facility, the Jewish elementary school Moriah (founded in 1907), and the Jewish reform grammar school Jawne. All that remains of the historic centre today is a chestnut tree in the former schoolyard. Founded in 1919, the Jawne was the only Jewish secondary school in the Rhineland. Its headmaster, Dr Erich Klibansky, managed to save some 130 of his students from the Nazis in 1939 by sending them on so-called Kindertransporte (trains carrying mainly Jewish children) to Great Britain.