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Ochtrup Cemetery

"[today] The cemetery contains 43 intact tombstones." Harold Slutzkin Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues...

Added Mar 19, 2020

Ochtrup

First Jewish presence: 1720; peak Jewish population: 43 in 1848; Jewish population in 1933: unknown (44 in 1931) Owing to...

Added Mar 19, 2020

Nieheim Cemetery

"A cemetery on Richterstrasse (1840);...Burials were conducted at the cemetery until 1942." Heidemarie Wawrzyn Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A...

Added Mar 19, 2020

Nieheim

First Jewish presence: in or around the 1648; peak Jewish population: 150 in 1871; Jewish population in 1932/33: 77 Records...

Added Mar 19, 2020

Elementary School

"Other communal institutions included a Jewish school, founded before 1820, that became an elementary school in 1863; the school was...

Added Mar 18, 2020

Niedermarsberg Cemetery

"In Niedermarsberg, a cemetery was consecrated on In der Hamecke in 1875 or 1885 (sources of information differ); both sources...

Added Mar 18, 2020

Niedermarsberg

First Jewish presence: 17th century; peak Jewish population: 162 in 1865; Jewish population in 1933: 93 Records from 1672 indicate...

Added Mar 18, 2020

Neheim Cemetery

"Local Jews established... a cemetery (near the Moehne-River) in 1835." Heidemarie Wawrzyn Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to...

Added Mar 18, 2020

Neheim

First Jewish presence: 17th century; peak Jewish population: 103 in 1910; Jewish population in 1933: 62 The earliest reference to...

Added Mar 18, 2020

Muenstereifel Cemetery

"Muenstereifel’s modern Jewish cemetery, officially consecrated in 1823, was enlarged in 1876 and again in 1930.... On Pogrom Night...the cemetery...

Added Mar 16, 2020

Muenstereifel Synagogue

"In 1660, a prayer hall was established at 17, Orchheimerstrasse. Much later, in 1877, a local Jew purchased that house...

Added Mar 16, 2020

Muenstereifel

First Jewish presence: 14th century; peak Jewish population: 133 in 1868; Jewish population in 1933: 65 The Jews of Muenstereifel...

Added Mar 16, 2020

Muelheim an der Ruhr Cemetery

"Burial grounds were acquired in or around 1720; the cemetery, which was expanded on three different occasions, is still in...

Added Mar 16, 2020

Muelheim an der Ruhr

First Jewish presence: 1620; peak Jewish population: 664 in 1920; Jewish population in 1933: 448 or 517 During the 17th...

Added Mar 16, 2020

Vicktoriaplatz Synagogue

"In order to accommodate the growing congregation...the community consecrated a new synagogue (on Viktoriaplatz) on August 2, 1907; the neo-Romantic...

Added Mar 16, 2020

Mondorf Cemetery

"Mondorf’s Jewish cemetery was consecrated in 1883." Heidemarie Wawrzyn Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues...

Added Mar 16, 2020