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Boehl-Iggelheim Synagogue

"...[W]e do know that in December 1840, a new synagogue was established at 43 Schulstrasse, in Boehl. Damaged by fire...

Added Apr 20, 2020

Boehl-Iggelheim

First Jewish presence: 18th century; peak Jewish population: 79 in 1848 (Boehl), 44 in 1866 (Iggelheim); Jewish population in 1933:...

Added Apr 20, 2020

Boechingen

First Jewish presence: 1584; peak Jewish population: 1852 (25% of the total population); Jewish population in 1933: 45 Few Jews...

Added Apr 20, 2020

Bockenheim

First Jewish presence: 16th century; peak Jewish population: 118 in 1853; Jewish population in 1933: 30 Although individual Jews settled...

Added Apr 20, 2020

Bitburg

First Jewish presence: 18th century; peak Jewish population: 73 in 1905; Jewish population in 1933: 65 Beginning in the mid-1800s,...

Added Apr 20, 2020

Birkenfeld

First Jewish presence: 1808; peak Jewish population: 76 in 1900; Jewish population in 1933: 37 Birkenfeld Jews belonged to the...

Added Apr 20, 2020

Binningen School

"The nearby Jewish school (63 Hauptstrasse) was closed down at the end of the 19th century,...On Pogrom Night, the interiors...

Added Apr 20, 2020

Binningen Synagogue

"Although we do not know when this community replaced its 17th-century prayer room with the synagogue at 61 Hauptstrasse, records...

Added Apr 20, 2020

Binningen Cemetery

"The Jews of Binningen also maintained...a regional cemetery ...Binningen’s cemetery was desecrated several times during the Nazi period (and once...

Added Apr 20, 2020

Binningen

First Jewish presence: 1757; peak Jewish population: 80 in 1817 (approximately 24% of the total population); Jewish population in 1933:...

Added Apr 20, 2020

Bingen Synagogue

"In 1871, after an organ was installed in the synagogue, the town’s Orthodox Jews decided to create a separate community...

Added Apr 20, 2020

Bingen Cemetery

"Bingen’s Jewish cemetery, consecrated in 1562, was enlarged in 1856. The Orthodox section—it had been established in 1872—was desecrated in...

Added Apr 20, 2020

Bingen

First Jewish presence: 10th century; peak Jewish population: 713 in 1900; Jewish population in 1933: 465 Bingen’s medieval Jewish community...

Added Apr 20, 2020

Billigheim Synagogue

"Records from 1842 mention a synagogue that had been established “approximately 80 years ago,” allowing us to estimate that the...

Added Apr 20, 2020

Billigheim

First Jewish presence: 1510; peak Jewish population: 109 in 1858 (10% of the total population); Jewish population in 1933: 35...

Added Apr 20, 2020

Bendorf Am Rhein

First Jewish presence: 1339; peak Jewish population: 261 in 1939 (see below); Jewish population in 1933: 209 The earliest available...

Added Apr 20, 2020