Brzeg Jewish Community
The Jewish community in Brieg ( Brzeg in Polish ), a district town of the Powiat Brzeski in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland , is documented by sources from the 14th and 15th centuries.
history
Protection letters from the Piast dukes from the 14th and 15th centuries granted Jewish merchants and craftsmen the right to stay in exchange for protection money payments. As a result of an edict of Emperor Rudolph II in 1582, all Jews were expelled from Brieg. Only after the Thirty Years War there was a Jewish community again in the city .
In 1799 the new synagogue was built in the classical style. The Jewish community had about 350 members in the middle of the 19th century. By 1933, their number had fallen to 255. In 1938 only 160 people of Jewish faith lived in Brieg. As in all cities of the German Reich , the so-called “ Reichskristallnacht ” of November 9, 1938 also sealed the violent end of the Jewish community in Brieg . Those who did not succeed in emigrating abroad became victims of the Shoah . The memorial book of the Federal Archives lists 137 Jewish citizens born in Brieg who fell victim to the genocide of the National Socialist regime .
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved December 19, 2014.