Markelsheim Jewish Community

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The Jewish community in Markelsheim , a district of Bad Mergentheim in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg , was founded in the 16th and 17th centuries. Century and existed until the time of National Socialism .

history

A Jewish community existed in Markelsheim from the 16th / 17th centuries. Century until around 1938. In 1590 Jews were first mentioned on site. Until 1900 the Markelsheim community was a subsidiary of the Jewish community of Igersheim , after 1900 it was the other way around when the Igersheim community was dissolved. The Markelsheim Jewish community owned the Markelsheim synagogue , a Jewish school and a ritual bath . A separate religion teacher was employed, who was also active as a prayer leader and schochet . After 1927 a religion teacher from the Edelfingen Jewish community taught the few Jewish children left in Markelsheim. The Markelsheim community was assigned to the Mergentheim district rabbinate . The dead of the community were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Unterbalbach . In 1933 there were still 20 Jewish people living in Markelsheim. During the November pogrom of 1938 , a Jewish apartment in Markelsheim was devastated by young people. Clothes and utensils were thrown into the village stream. As a result, several Jewish men were arrested in Markelsheim and deported to the Dachau concentration camp . In 1939 there were still nine Jewish residents in the area. The last five Jewish residents from Markelsheim were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in August 1942 . Of the Jewish people who were born in Markelsheim or who lived there for a long time, the following people can be shown to have died during the National Socialist era : Sophie Elkan b. Hahn (1852), Martha Schlossberger b. Strauss (1904), David Strauss (1871), Jacob Strauss (1901), Julius Strauss (1873), Julius Strauss (1875), Lora (Lienora) Strauss geb. Elkan (1879), Mathilde Strauss (1884), Ruth Strauss (1909) and Sigmund Strauss (1882).

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: Markelsheim (City of Bad Mergentheim, Main-Tauber district) Jewish history / prayer hall / 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.