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Ochtendung

First Jewish presence: 18th century; peak Jewish population: 73 in 1860; Jewish population in 1933: unknown Jews may have lived...

Category: Mikveh
Location: Ochtendung, Rhineland-Palatinate

Added May 19, 2020

Prayer Room and Mikveh

"The community established the following institutions: a prayer room— it housed a mikveh, private apartments and a kosher slaughterhouse—at present-day...

Category: Mikveh
Location: Hainstadt, Baden-Wuerttemberg

Added Apr 30, 2020

Mikveh

"As of this writing, a disused private mikveh still exists in a cellar on Koenig Johann Strasse." Bronagh Bowerman Copyright:...

Category: Mikveh
Location: Freudenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate

Added Apr 20, 2020

Leopoldstrasse Mikveh

"Dortmund’s Orthodox, Eastern European Jews, who arrived during World War I and lived in the northern part of the city,...

Category: Mikveh
Location: Dortmund (Tremonia), North Rhine-Westphalia

Added Feb 13, 2020

Angermuende Mikveh

"The community mikveh was located at 1 Bruederstrasse until the building was deemed unsafe in 1910." Ruth Martina Trucks Copyright:...

Category: Mikveh
Location: Angermuende, Brandenberg

Added Jan 24, 2020

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