" By the mid- 14th century, most were living on the Judengasse, or “Jews’ alley,” (present-day Słowackiego). In 1462, after a series of pogroms, Duke Jan II (Żagań’s last ruler from the Piast dynasty) expelled Jews from Sagan."
Benjamin Rosendahl
Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

Notes

Sources: The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Shmuel Spector [Ed.], [publisher] Yad Vashem and the New York University Press, 2001., Führer durch die Jüdische Gemeindeverwaltung und Wohlfahrtspflege in Deutschland 1923-1933, Andreas Nachama, Simon Hermann [Eds.], [publisher] Edition Hentrich, 1995.

Details

Date Added Jan 30, 2020
Category Residential
Country DE
State Lower Saxony
City Sagan (Żagań)
Exhibits Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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