Belfast Hebrew Congregation


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Reference WMO/291950

Address:

Belfast Hebrew Congregation

49 Somerton Road

Belfast

BT15 3LH

Northern Ireland

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Nowy headed cast brass plaque in a brass frame, on a wooden backboard. There is a star of David in the Nowy head, This building opened in 1967 for the approximately 80 members now in Northern Ireland. At the time of WW1 there were around 1000 jews in Belfast, mainly Askenazi, from Russia, Poland and Lithuania, served by 3 synagogues. By the 1937 Northern Ireland Census (the only part of the UK to take a census that year) there were 1,470 jews in Northern Ireland, the vast majority in Belfast. This number was further swelled by up to 1,000 servicemen coming to Belfast, about 250 Jewish refugees from Gibraltar, and about 30 children who came on the Kindertransport (both these groups were accommodated in a camp at Millisle). After the war about 60 children were brought to Millisle from Auschwitz Concentration Camp. For whatever reason one WW1 name is omitted from this plaque- Michael Isaac (Ike) Freeman, died 2 July 1916. Bennett Sergai was born in Belfast but had emigrated before 1911. He enlisted in the United States Air Service at Cincinatti, USA. He was serving at Killingholme on the Humber Estuary when his patrolling flying boat crashed due to engine failure. After a funeral service at the base his body was returned home and he is interred in a United States war grave (with private headstone) at Carnmoney Jewish Cemetery, Belfast. He is not therefore commemorated by the CWGC, although there are 4 CWGC war graves as well in that Cemetery. There is one Civilian WW2 casualty not recorded on this plaque- Maurice (Moses) Bennet Jacobson (born 5 April 1895, killed 5 May 1941), who was injured at 30 Eglinton Street (and died at the Mater Hospital in the Belfast Blitz. He is buried at Carnmoney Jewish Cemetery although CWGC does not give the place of burial for air raid casualties. Also not listed on this memorial for WW2, but buried at Carnmoney Jewish Cemetery, is Norman Apfelbaum. He had been born in Manchester to a Belfast Jewish family. Early in the war he had been a guard at an Aliens Camp in the Isle of Man, but was killed while travelling on the SS Arandora Star (one of over 800 lives lost on that ship). His body was recovered, and initially buried at Ballyshannon in the Republic of Ireland, but at some stage he was exhumed and brought north to Carnmoney where a private gravestone marks his war grave. Albert Abraham Goldstone also has a Stone of Remembrance at Carnmoney Jewish Cemetery-WMO/291956.
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BELFAST HEBREW CONGREGATION/IN HONOURED MEMORY/OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/FOR THEIR COUNTRY/[hebrew script]/1914-1918/[names[/1939-1945/[names]/WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

WW1- Pte. B. Goldie/ Capt. I. Gorfunkle/ AB B. Sergie; WW2- Sgt Plt A. Goldstone/ Capt. L. Herbert MC/ P.O. L. Sharpe/ AB A. Taylor

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