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Editor:JEWISH MUNICIPALITY OF BANJA LUKA

Editor in chief :

Dr. Jakov Danon

Reviewer : Jakob Finci

Proofreader : Žarko Mačkić

The firm incharged for printing : "Zavod distrofičara"

Banja Luka

Dr. Jakov Danon, Verica M. Stošić

Prezentaciju po ideji autora uradio:

"Zavod distrofičara“ Banja Luka

THE CHRONICLE OF THE JEWISH MUNICIPALITY OF BANJA LUKA

The number of members of the Jewish Municipality in the period from 1945 to 1990 has been moving from 40 to 25 members and is gradually lowering from one to another year. All the activity was based on the humanitarian aid from the Union of Jewish Municipalities, which, because of the small number of Banja Luka Jews, was carrying out the partial sale of the municipal property in the middle of twentieth century. The objective difficulty for the researching of the archive material claimed, beside the poor historical documentation from the Turkish period, the lack pinekas (the Jewish church books), temple protocol concerned of the membership and the important happenings connected to the Municipality, which disappeared and were taken away by the members of the Ustasha's regime in order to hide the crimes performed over Banja Luka Jews.

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Caves in valley of

Kumran, finding

of remaining from

Dead Sea

BIBLICAL JUDAISM


Israel and Judah


BIBLICAL JUDAISM

JEWS IN BANJA LUKA

Banja Luka city map between 18th and 19th century Upravo ti progoni Jevreja iz cijele Evrope, koji se vremenski podudaraju sa protjerivanjem Jevreja iz Španije 1492. i Portugala 1496. godine, zbog postojeće drumske komunikacije između Servicijuma i Salone, Dalmacije i Podunavlja, koji je prolazio kroz Banju Luku, indirektno upućuju na mogućnost sporadičnog grupnog dolaska Jevreja izbjeglica u Bosansku Krajinu još za vrijeme kralja Tvrtka iz pravca mletačke Venecije, a iz pravca Španije nakon egzodusa, s tim što se u oba slučaja njihov dolazak odvija preko Ancone i Venecije s jedne, te Dubrovnika, Splita, Šibenika i Zadra s druge strane.


Market place in Banja LUka - beginning of 19th century

Wooden bridge over river Vrbas, built in XVI century and it was conecting left and right side of Banja Luka

Banja Luka city between 18th and 19th century


Filigree ornaments: bracelets and broaches with David's star from Turkish times, Museum of Banja Luka City, Banja Luka 2006

JEWS OF BANJA LUKA DURING AUSTRO-HUNGRARIAN ANNEXATION


JEWS OF BANJA LUKA IN THE KINGDOM OF SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN TWO WARS

Gospodska streat in Banja Luka in 1920. On the left, three Jewish strores from Mr. Moritz Gottlib, Mr. Moritz Herceg, and

Mr. Aarona A. Saloma


U Banjoj Luci su odvojeno djelovale sefardska, domaća i aškenaska strana, zbog davno naznačene netrpeljivosti, koja se jednostavno može objasniti činjenicom da su sefardi nakon egzodusa vijekovima živjeli na ovim prostorima i vezali se za bosansku zemlju i njene narode, istu osjećali i u većoj mjeri doživljavali kao svoju, što kod aškenaza, s obzirom na njihovo porijeklo, nije bio slučaj. Sefardi su, kao što smo već rekli, svoju opštinu pod nazivom Sefardska izrealitska bogoštovna opština osnovali u periodu između 1848. i 1850. godine.

Prvu sinagogu, drvene konstrukcije, podigli na lijevoj obali rijeke Crkvene, na mjestu današnje gradske tržnice

On the photo of Jukiceva street from 1934 on the left side under No.1 Old Sephardic Temple built in 1880 and opposite under No.2 building which for three decade

accommodated premises of Sephardic commune photographed in 1934 - (Museum of the City of Banja Luka)



Drawing of Ashkenazi synagogue 1900/1902 by B. Kovacevic



Approval for building of Sephardic Temple



Draft of Jewish culture house in Princa Pavla Street (left) and new Sephardic Temple in Jukiceva Street (right)



Part of Jewish cemetery in Borik, built in 1883., picture taken before World War I

JEWS ON THE EVE OF AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN OCCUPATION


The most famous fashion store in Gospodska street in Banja Luka in 1881., owned by M. Schnicler


Gospodska street – before Castl corner


Left from Palace Hotel, partly visible Salomon Haim’s house



House of Isak and Erna Poljokan in old town, Left Hotel palace / City museum



Family Salom-Sarafic house Store of Joseph Nahmias



Front page of preserved comics „La Trazera“done by Jewish students from 1923



PODATKE JE PRIKUPILA I OBRADILAVERICA M. STOŠIĆ, ARHIVSKI SAVJETNIK

II DIO HRONIKA JEVRJESKE OPŠTINE BANJA LUKA

BANJALUČKE JEVREJSKE PORODICE

SPISAK SVIH EVIDENTIRANIH JEVREJA OPŠTINE BANJA LUKA.

SPISAK JE URAĐEN UGLAVNOM NA OSNOVU DOKUMENATA IZ ARHIVA REPUBLIKE SRPSKE, A OBOGAĆEN JE MNOGOBROJNIM PODACIMA – OD DATUMA ROĐENJA DO ZANIMANJA I ADRESE.


Mr Salomon and Mrs Micika Haima Poljokan and son Rafael

Family of Moshe and Rahela Levi, Daughter Rifka (right) who lived in Banja Luka until her death 1986. Some of her relatives are still living in Banja Luka.

(Picture taken from family album.).



Salamon Moni (Banjaluka 16.1.1904 – logor, Njemačka, 1943)

sudija

Rabin Karlo Riemer, sjedi, drugi slijeva

Samuel Sarafić (Banjaluka 1910 - ?)

pravnik

Jakob Sarafić(Banjaluka 28. 11.1905 - ?)

doktor

Sigmund Schnitzler (Banjaluka 20.6.1906 - ?)

privatni činovnik

Jozef Sarafić(Banjaluka 5.2.1908 - logor

Jasenovac 1942) ekonomista

Boro Ilić, Josip Rolih, Nikica Pavlić, Rade Ličina (sjede), Moric Sumbulović, stoji


Paul Fischer (Banjaluka 1.8.1894 – logor Jajinci 1943/44)

vijećnik Gradskog vijeća u Banjaluci

Draguljarnica Moritza Gotlieba u Gospodskoj ulici

Dr Margita Hercl (Subotica 22.2.1900 -

Čemernica 1942) doktor

Moritz Herzog (Gospođinci 1875 - 1946)

trgovac

Sigmund Herzog(Farkašdin, Banat, 1898 - ?)

trgovac

Sida Kavezon(Bosanski Petrovac

25.10.1913 - ?) stručna učiteljica

Leon S. Levi (Banjaluka 1857 - ?)

trgovac

Rafael S. Levi(Bihać 1888 - ?)

trgovački pomoćnik


Avram J. (Banjaluka 1896 - ?)

trgovac

Majer Levi(Banjaluka 1906 - ?)

trgovacObućarska radnja Rafaela Z. Levija

Trgovinska radnja Jozefa D. Nachmiasa

Haim Nahmias (Banjaluka 1904 - logor

Jasenovac 1941) trgovac

Salamon Papo(Visoko 18.2.1901 - ?)

učitelj vještina

Inž. Leon Poljokan (Banjaluka 1901 - ?)

inženjer hemije

Rafael Poljokan(Banjaluka 1881 - ?)


ALTARAC Samuel (Banjaluka 11.11.1908 - ?)

veterinar

Jakov Altarac IV (Banjaluka 1900 - )

doktor

Kalmi Altarac dr (1906 – 1971)

doktor

Nisim Baruh(Banjaluka ?-1942/43)

fotograf

Dr Beniamin Bernsteinvojni ljekar

Ernest Brammer mr ph, zvani Puba (Banjaluka 22.9.1899 - 11.3.1960)

magistar farmacije

Berta Finci udata Kamhi (Sarajevo 30.12.1905 - ?)

suplenta I kategorije

Valerija Fischer (Čakovec 30.5.1879 - ?)

trgovkinja


Annunciation to Owners of Jewish stores in Banja Luka with signatures. Document no. NDH br.3367/41 (The Archive of The Republic of Srpska)

PERIL OF BANJA LUKA JEWS IN WORLD WAR II


Albert Trinki (left) Partisan’s Medalist in 1941.

The official number of twelve Jews

of Banja Luka participants of the

anti-fascist revolution is not

confirmed and is only an

expression of the compromise

offered since it is impossible to

demonstrate the contribution of

Jews in awakening of the anti-

fascist spirit and the need for

unification in the fight against the

fascist force. Jews from Banja

Luka on the eve of the World War

II and before 1941 joined the

National liberation movement.



Original listing of arrested Jews to be deported to u Gospić-1941 Document NDH no. 304/41- (The Archive of The Republic of Srpska).



Report of Jewish home in Banja luka which was turned into brothel called "Linda bar"- Document NDH no 71312/42 (The Archive of The Republic of Srpska)



POST-WAR MIGRATIONS

Change of Property

Owners in property

document of

Sephardic Temple


THE FATE OF THE SYNAGOGUES IN BANJA LUKA, JEWISH CEMETERY AND THE SITUATION AFTER THE

EARTQUAKE IN BANJA LUKA

Sinagogue look from 1903, left and from 1969. right at the photos


65 years after the World War II and 10 years after the fall of the previous Yugoslavia, they are solidly about to start their missionary trip so much expected by the people .

When the national extremism of the main national groups appeared on the soil of BH, menacing more and more and announced evil, the Jewish ethnic minority in Banja Luka started to get ready reminding us of unification of tribes in ancestral Judea with the purpose to defend themselves from enemy and not so recent holocaust not of Jews only ,

The Society of Jewish-Serb friendship shortly after that was dissolved due to political imputation needed by no one in such a situation. Membership rose daily with the arrival of refugees from other regions

Shalom to everyone


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