"Muenstereifel’s modern Jewish cemetery, officially consecrated in 1823, was enlarged in 1876 and again in 1930.... On Pogrom Night...the cemetery was desecrated...The Jewish cemetery, renovated between the years 1946 and 1961, contains a memorial plaque; the cemetery was desecrated in 1971."
Nurit Borut
Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

Notes

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 Sources: Gemeindeverwaltung und Wohlfahrtspflege in Deutschland 1923-1933, Andreas Nachama, Simon Hermann [Eds.], [publisher] Edition Hentrich, 1995., HZER, Dokumentation zur Geschichte der Juden am linken Niederrhein seit dem 17. Jahrhundert, Klaus H. S. Schulte, [publisher] Historischer Verein für den Niederrhein, 1972.

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