Angermuende

First Jewish presence: 13th century; peak Jewish population: 135 in 1880; Jewish population in 1933: 60

Prior to 1815, when Angermuende’s Jewish community established a synagogue in a barn on 56 Klosterstrasse (present-day 10 Klosterstrasse), religious gatherings took place in merchant Abraham Jonas’ home on 65 Rosenstrasse. The synagogue was enlarged in 1865 and crowned with a dome, but it was, ironically, around this time that many Jews from Angermuende decided to leave for larger cities. In or around 1743, the community engaged a teacher of religion. Angermuende’s Jewish cemetery was opened after an outbreak of an epidemic in 1709 made it unsafe to transport the dead to Shweedt or Odenburg. The community mikveh was located at 1 Bruederstrasse until the building was deemed unsafe in 1910. Jews were exposed to relentless humiliation and extortion after 1933. On Pogrom Night, Jewish homes were wrecked, furniture was thrown out of windows and the synagogue was burned to the ground. The cemetery was also desecrated, its tombstones stolen. Forty-one Angermuende Jews perished in the Shoah. As of this writing, a memorial plaque to the former Jewish community has never been unveiled in Angermuende.

Ruth Martina Trucks

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., Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Entrance

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Date Added	Jan 24, 2020
Category	Residential
Country	DE
State	Brandenberg
City	Angermuende
Exhibits	Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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Angermuende

First Jewish presence: 13th century; peak Jewish population: 135 in 1880; Jewish population in 1933: 60

Ruth Martina Trucks

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

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