Synagogue (Niederzerf)

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The synagogue in Niederzerf was inaugurated in 1930. The building (at the corner of Bahnhofstrasse and Trierer Strasse) was bought by the Jewish community in the late 1920s and converted into a synagogue. The synagogue was sold before the November pogroms in 1938 and was used by members of the Wehrmacht from then on . At the beginning of 1945 the building was destroyed and demolished due to the effects of the war.

synagogue

From 1900 there was a prayer room at Trierer Straße 19. At the end of the 1920s, the Jewish community acquired a building on the corner of Bahnhofstraße / Trierer Straße, which was slightly offset behind the building at Bahnhofstraße 2, and set up a synagogue in it. The synagogue was sold before the November pogroms in 1938. In the following period the building was used as a variety theater for members of the armed forces. At the beginning of 1945 the building was destroyed and demolished due to the effects of the war.

Jewish community Niederzerf

The Jewish inhabitants of Greimerath , Schillingen , Pellingen and Losheim am See also belonged to the Jewish community of Niederzerf . In addition to the synagogue, the community also had a religious school. The deceased were buried in the 1905 Jewish cemetery in Niederzerf.

Development of the Jewish population

year Jews Jewish families
1895 10
1924 16
1925 23

Source: alemannia-judaica.de

According to the memorial book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 and the Central Database of the Names of the Holocaust Victims of Yad Vashem , 23 members of the Niederzerf Jewish community (who were born there or lived there temporarily) were murdered during the Nazi era .

literature

  • Cilli Kasper-Holtkatte: Jews on the move. On the social history of a minority in the Saar-Mosel area around 1800. In: Helmut Castritius (Ed.), Alfred Haverkamp (Ed.), Franz Irsigler (Ed.), Stefi Jersch-Wenzel (Ed.): Research on the history of the Jews (= Research on the history of the Jews. Volume 3). Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1996, ISBN 978-3775256124 . ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Niederzerf with Greimerath and Schillingen . alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved March 28, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Saarburg (Rhineland-Palatinate) . jewische-gemeinden.de. Retrieved March 28, 2020.
  3. ↑ Commemorative Book Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 . Federal Archives. Retrieved March 28, 2020.
  4. ^ Central database of the names of Holocaust victims . Yad Vashem - International Holocaust Memorial. Retrieved March 28, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 3.9 "  N , 6 ° 41 ′ 15.5"  E