Korschenbroich
First Jewish presence: 1689; peak Jewish population: 67 in 1885; Jewish population in 1933: unknown (20 in 1932)
Religious services were conducted in Joseph Wallach’s home on Muhlenstrasse until 1826, when the Jewish inhabitants of Korschenbroich built a small synagogue on the same street. Towards the end of the century, the community purchased an adjacent house and established there a school for religious studies, a communal office and living accommodation for a community official and his family. Beginning in 1933, local Nazis harassed Jewish residents so relentlessly that most left. On Pogrom Night, the synagogue and the remaining Jewish homes were vandalized, after which the last 11 Jews left Korschenbroich. During the war, French POWs were housed in what remained of the synagogue building. The synagogue was finally torn down in 1959; members of the surviving Jewish community were compensated for the loss of the site. In November 1988, on the 50th anniversary of Pogrom Night, a memorial tablet commemorating the former Jewish community was unveiled in Korschenbroich.Harold Slutzkin
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., Lexikon der jüdischen Gemeinde in Deutschen Sprachraum, Klaus Dieter-Alicke, [publisher] Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2008., Feuer in dein Heiligtum gelegt: Zerstörte Synagogen 1938 Nordrhein-Westfalen, Michael Brooke [Ed.], Meier Schwarz [foreword], [publisher] Kamp, 1999.
Details
| Date Added | Feb 25, 2020 |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Country | DE |
| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| City | Korschenbroich |
| Exhibits | Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany |
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