Jugenheim

Residential - Jugenheim, Rhineland-Palatinate

First Jewish presence: five families in 1808; peak Jewish population: 67 in 1861; Jewish population in 1933: unknown

Jugenheim, a small village in the Mainz-Bingen district (now part of Nieder-Olm in the state of Rheinland-Pfalz) was overwhelmingly Protestant. The earliest available records of a Jewish presence there are documents pertaining to tax rosters from the early 18th century. In the mid-19th century, when approximately 60 Jews lived in Jugenheim, a prayer room was established on the second floor of a private residence on Hintergasse. For a few years, the community also maintained a Jewish school. Violent acts of ant-Semitism broke out in Jugenheim in the 1880s. By 1927, the Jewish population had dwindled significantly, and the prayer room, which had until then also served the neighboring villages, fell into disuse. On November 10, 1938 (Pogrom Night), hordes of locals burned down the residence in which the prayer room had been housed, leaving intact only the foundational wall; they also destroyed several Jewish homes and burned the burial society’s wagon. There were no Jews left in Jugenheim in 1939.

Fred Gottlieb

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ germansynagogues.bh.org.il

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., “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.

Details

Date Added	May 04, 2020
Category	Residential
Country	DE
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
City	Jugenheim
Exhibits	Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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Jugenheim

First Jewish presence: five families in 1808; peak Jewish population: 67 in 1861; Jewish population in 1933: unknown

Fred Gottlieb

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ germansynagogues.bh.org.il

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