Ihringen Jewish Community

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The memorial
The memorial plaque with the parishioners murdered by the Nazis

There was a Jewish community in Ihringen until 1938. The community can be verified from 1716. At that time, as a result of the expulsions of Jews in Switzerland and Alsace, the admission of Jews to the village was first recorded. The members of the community belonged to the Breisach rabbinate and from 1721 were able to create a cemetery in Emmendingen together with the Emmendingen and Eichstetter Jews. In 1738 the community consisted of 10 families and had its prayer room in a private building. When it was sold in 1760, they started building a synagogue that same year . The congregation grew steadily until the middle of the 18th century and reached its maximum in 1852 with 263 believers. From 1810 the community had its own cemetery . The new synagogue on Bachenstrasse was then planned and built around 1860 . The architect was Georg Jakob Schneider from Freiburg , who planned and built several synagogues in the Freiburg area. In 1925 the congregation still had 125 members.

From 1933, the then 98 parishioners suffered from increasing reprisals. Community members were locked up, professional groups were banned from working, and from 1936 the children were expelled from public schools and had to go to school at the Lessing School in Freiburg. A third of the community emigrated, another part moved to other places, on October 22, 1940 15 Jews were deported to Gurs.

The synagogue was destroyed by the National Socialists in the night of the pogrom , the Jews were rounded up by the SS at the synagogue and had to watch their synagogue burn down.

A memorial stone has been commemorating the fate of fellow Jews since 1980. The "Synagogenplatz" memorial was built later. In April 2009 an additional memorial stone was added with the names of the 57 Jews murdered during the Nazi era . The heading in Hebrew is Remember and Don't Forget . The date was deliberately set on Holocaust Remembrance Day at the end of the restoration work after the desecration of the cemetery in 2009. At the request of the regional rabbi Benjamin David Soussan , the gendankboard was put up in Ihringen and not in the cemetery, because after all, it is not the dead but the living who have to be warned .

On September 7, 2008, on the European Day of Jewish Culture, the copies of the 3 Ihringer Haggadas from the years 1732, 1740, 1756 were shown in Ihringen. The originals of the Jewish book artworks printed by Abraham Levi in ​​Ihrigen are in museums in Jerusalem (1732), Paris (1740) and London (1756).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Encyclopedia of Jewish life Before and During the Holocaust
  2. ^ Badische Zeitung September 5, 2008. "It's a little sensation" An interview by the BZ with Ruben Frankenstein lecturer for Hebrew language and literature at the Orient seminar at the University of Freiburg

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