Morhange Jewish Community

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Jewish cemetery in Morhange

A Jewish community in Morhange in the Moselle department in the French region of Lorraine is first recorded in 1637.

history

For a long time, the Jewish community of Morhange had only one prayer room that was rented. In 1901 a synagogue was built, which was destroyed by the German occupiers during the Second World War .

graveyard

The Morhange Jewish cemetery is located on the Impasse du Cimetière Israélite and many gravestones ( Mazevot ) have already sunk into the ground.

literature

  • Henry Schumann: Mémoire des communautés juives de Moselle . Éditions Serpenoise, Metz 1999, ISBN 2-87692-430-7 .

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