Berthold Oppenheim

Berthold Oppenheim (1867–1942) was the rabbi of Olomouc, Moravia, from 1892 to 1939. He was murdered in 1942 at the Treblinka extermination camp. and on October 15, 1942 he was deported with Transport Bv to Poland (so-called "transports of old") – to Treblinka, where he was murdered in the same year.

Whether he died in a gas chamber, or was killed in a so-called lazaret (which was a group of barracks surrounded by a fence and an adjoining pit full of bodies of wounded men who have resorted to believing that they would find at least elementary care here) is not known.

Memorial plaque

In 1974, the synagogue corps in Olomouc left a memorial plaque for Rabbi Oppenheim, which was placed in the Jewish cemetery in Olomouc, on the gravestone of his mother Helene Oppenheim (1839-1929), beside the right wall of the cemetery chapel.

Stolperstein

On the 29 and 30 October 2012, 42 Stolpersteine were laid in Olomouc, including one for Oppenheim and his wife in front of the former building on the Avenue Třída Svobody 24 (later demolished), where he lived until his deportation. The Stolperstein carries the following text (shown here with English translation): ZDE BYDLEL RABÍN BERTHOLD OPPENHEIM NAR. 1867 DEPORTOVÁN 1942 DO TEREZÍNA ZAVRAŽDĚN V TREBLINCE HERE RESIDED RABBI BERTHOLD OPPENHEIM BORN 1867 DEPORTED IN 1942 TO THERESIENSTADT MURDERED IN TREBLINKA

Articles Berthold Oppenheim, Geschichte der Juden in Olmütz, in: H. Gold (Hrsg.), Die Juden und Judengemeinden Mährens in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. A collection, Jüdischer Buch- und Kunstverlag, Brünn 1929, pp. 451–456 (in German), downloadable free of charge at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library) by clicking on "Archivobjekt öffnen".