Jewish community of Igersheim

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The Jewish community in Igersheim existed from the 16th century until 1938.

history

A Jewish community existed in Igersheim from the 16th century until around 1900, then as a subsidiary of the Markelsheim Jewish community until 1938. In 1564, Jews were first mentioned on site. The Igersheim Jewish community owned the Igersheim synagogue , a Jewish school and a ritual bath . A separate religion teacher was employed, who was also active as a prayer leader and schochet . The community's dead were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Unterbalbach . In 1828 the Jewish community of Igersheim was assigned to the Mergentheim district rabbinate . From 1832 onwards, following a reallocation of the Jewish community, Markelsheim initially belonged to Igersheim as a branch community, after 1900 it was the other way around. In 1933, eleven Jewish people were still living in Igersheim. At the end of November 1938, the last five Jewish residents of Igersheim were deported via Stuttgart to the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp.

Of the Jewish people who were born in Igersheim or who lived there for a long time, the following people can be shown to have died during the National Socialist era . Sofie Cahn b. Hartheimer (1872), David Fechenbach (1885), Josef Sigmund Hartheimer (1880), Rosa Hartheimer (1921), Schmai (Schnay) Hartheimer (1877) and Sofie Hartheimer geb. Gutmann (1883).

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Alemannia Judaica: Igersheim (Main-Tauber-Kreis) Jewish history / prayer room / synagogue . online at www.alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
  2. ↑ Information based on the lists from Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.
  3. ↑ Information from the memorial book - Victims of the persecution of the Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933–1945.