Jewish community of Meckesheim

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The Jewish community of Meckesheim was the Jewish community in the former Palatinate village of Meckesheim .

history

The community came into being around 1700 when Moses Marx, the first Jew from Dilsberg, came to Meckesheim. The community grew steadily at first and comprised three Jewish households in 1744 and seven in 1809. The highest number of Jewish residents reached Meckesheim in 1880 with 66 people. From 1827 the community belonged to the district rabbinate Heidelberg . In 1830 a synagogue was built on Leopoldstrasse. Before that, the congregation had met for worship in a prayer room in a Jewish private house. The community also had a school, a mikveh and a cemetery . Already at the beginning of the 20th century the number of Jewish citizens was steadily decreasing, so that in 1900 there were still 48 Jews living in Meckesheim, in 1933 only 17. On October 12, 1937, due to the small number of members, the Jewish community of Meckesheim was decided by the Baden State Ministry dissolved and the Jewish inhabitants of Meckesheim assigned to the Jewish community in Neidenstein . The synagogue was sold at the end of 1937, which is why the building survived the November 1938 pogroms undamaged.

National Socialist Persecution

The last four Jewish residents were deported to Gurs in October 1940 and later died in concentration camps .

The memorial book of the Federal Archives lists seven Jewish citizens born in Meckesheim who fell victim to the genocide of the National Socialist regime .

literature

  • Edith Wolber: Jewish life in Meckesheim until 1940. The forgotten history of a Kraichgaudorfes. Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2015, ISBN 978-3-89735-909-3 (not evaluated)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved February 15, 2013.