Jewish Community Laudenbach (Weikersheim)

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The Jewish community in Laudenbach , a district of Weikersheim in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg , originated in the Middle Ages and existed until the time of National Socialism .

history

A Jewish community already existed in Laudenbach in the Middle Ages, as the persecution of Jews took place in the town in 1336. A modern Jewish community emerged in Laudenbach in the 17th century and existed until 1939. The Laudenbach Jewish community owned the Laudenbach synagogue , a Jewish school and a ritual bath . The community's dead were initially buried in the Jewish cemetery in Unterbalbach and, from 1729, in the Jewish cemetery in Weikersheim . A separate religion teacher was employed, who was also active as a prayer leader and schochet . The community belonged to the district rabbinate Mergentheim . In 1933 there were still 13 Jewish people living in Laudenbach. The interior of the Laudenbach synagogue was destroyed in the November pogrom in 1938 . In July 1939 the community was dissolved. The last six Jewish residents of Laudenbach were deported to the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp on December 1, 1941 and to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on August 22, 1942 .

Of the Jewish people who were born in Laudenbach or who lived in Laudenbach for a long time, the following people can be shown to have died during the National Socialist era : Julie Baum b. Castle (1875), Fanny Brader b. Hofmann (1878), Selma Bravmann b. Rosenstock (1887), Clara Dreifuss b. Castle (1868), Siegfried Eisemann (1886), Paula Forchheimer b. Löwenstein (1884), Frieda Freudenberger (1893), Rosa Guttmann born. Löwenstein (1888), Anna Hähnlein (1887), Jenny Hähnlein (1890), Frieda Heilbrunn geb. Eisemann (1887), Helene Heimann b. Löwenstein (1886), Ricka Hirsch b. Adler (1882), Paula (Pauline) Kahn (1872), Cilli Kirchheimer b. Rosenthal (1888), Pauline Kohn b. Löwenstein (1884), Benno Löwenstein (1882), Julius Löwenstein (1887), Adolf Rosenstock (1883), Paula Rosenthal (1892), Getta Schlossmann b. Löwengardt (1882), Frida Schömann b. Castle (1882), Wilhelm Selz (1903), Karoline Steigerwald b. Löwengardt (1854), Hanna (Johanna) Stern b. Löwenstein (1862), Jette Stern b. Schloß (1860) and Selma Teutsch born. Eisemann (1885).

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: Laudenbach (City of Weikersheim, Main-Tauber district) Jewish history / prayer hall / synagogue . Online at www.alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved September 6, 2017.
  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.