AHAUS: North Rhine-Westphalia

52°4′N 7°0′E, in Kreis Borken, NW Nordrhein-Westfalen, near the Dutch border. Jewish population: 110 (in 1895), 72 (in 1933). Jewish history.

JewishGen GerSIG.

• Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), pp. 21-22: "Ahaus".
• [Sep 2012]
• Aachen
  Title: Juden in Aachen
  Author: Manfred Berganzand Annelie Kreutz
  Publication Date: 1988
  Publisher: Gesellschaft fuer Christlich-Juedische Zusammenarbeit
  Comments: at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 A22 B54

  Title: Die Juden in Aachen; historische Uebersicht
  Author: Otto Dresemann
  Publication Date: 1887
  Comments: at Leo Baeck Institute, call no. DS 135 G4 A22 D7

  Title: Zur Geschichte der Juden in der Aachener Gegend
  Author: Emil Pauls
  Publication Date: 1918
  Comments: at Leo Baeck Institute, call no. DS 135 G4 A22 P34

CEMETERY: 48683 North Rhine-Westphalia (Gerz) photo source. On the road to Wessumer. Used 1820 - 1941, oldest grave stone 1844. 58 gravestones. The area was then called Windmühlentor. On the 741 acre estate, 58 are gravestones with some still legible inscriptions are visible. The oldest is from 1844, the most recent 1937. In 1940 two funerals took place, but no gravestones were set. Date: 1820 to 1941. photo of new gate to cemetery. Study of cemetery by Nathanja Hüttenmeister, Jewish Cemetery Ahaus, Duisburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-9807566-6-2, 16 euros. .

Digital Edition: Jewish cemetery Ahaus (1844-1937 / 57 inscriptions)
- History in Westphalia-Lippe 1987 , p.29
- History in Handbook 2008 , pp. 15