Bausendorf

Residential - Bausendorf, Rhineland-Palatinate

First Jewish presence: 1794; peak Jewish population 46 in 1895; Jewish population in 1933: 33

Very little is known about the history of Jewish Bausendorf. The earliest available records tell us that 13 Jews lived there in 1808, after which the Jewish population experienced modest growth (46 Jews, the peak population, in 1895). Nevertheless, the community managed to build a synagogue, consecrate a cemetery and found a school. The modest synagogue, which was built and inaugurated in 1880, also housed classrooms where Jewish children studied religion; in 1931, classes were discontinued as a result of insufficient enrolment numbers. By 1934, as a direct result of the Nazis’ anti-Jewish boycott, Bausendorf ’s Jewish population had dropped to below 20. Accordingly, synagogue services were discontinued. We know very little about what happened in Bausendorf on Pogrom Night, but the records do tell us that the synagogue was defaced and vandalized. The abandoned building was torn down in 1961. As of this writing, a memorial has never been erected in Bausendorf.

Moshe Finkel

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

Notes

Sources: Alemannia Judaica, www.alemannia-judaica.de The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Shmuel Spector [Ed.], [publisher] Yad Vashem and the New York University Press, 2001., “und dies ist die Pforte des Himmels”: Synagogen Rheinland-Pfalz/Saarland, Will Schmid, Stefan Fischbach and Ingrid Westerhoff [Eds.], publication initiated by Joachim Glatz and Meier Schwarz, [publisher] Phillipp Von Zabern, 2005.

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Date Added	Apr 20, 2020
Category	Residential
Country	DE
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
City	Bausendorf
Exhibits	Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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Bausendorf

First Jewish presence: 1794; peak Jewish population 46 in 1895; Jewish population in 1933: 33

Moshe Finkel

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

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