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Gelsenkirchen Liberal Synagogue
"Communal institutions included... a synagogue attended by liberal Jews on Neustrasse (presentday Grindelstrasse/Georgstrasse), the latter of which was inaugurated in...
- Category: Synagogue
- Location: Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Added Feb 19, 2020
Gelsenkirchen Old Cemetery
"Communal institutions included a cemetery on Wanner Strasse (used until 1936)." Heidemarie Wawrzyn Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial...
- Category: Cemetery
- Location: Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Added Feb 19, 2020
Gelsenkirchen School
"Records also tell us that the community established a Jewish public school at 44 Ringstrasse in 1894 (enlarged in 1907)...During...
- Category: School
- Location: Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Added Feb 19, 2020
Gelsenkirchen
First Jewish presence: early 19th century; peak Jewish population: approximately 1,700 in the 1920s; Jewish population in 1932/33: 1,440 In...
- Category: Residential
- Location: Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Added Feb 19, 2020
Geldern
First Jewish presence: 11th century; peak Jewish population: 150 in 1862; Jewish population in 1933: 57 Records from the period...
- Category: Residential
- Location: Geldern (Gelderen), North Rhine-Westphalia
Added Feb 19, 2020
Geilenkirchen
First Jewish presence: 17th century; peak Jewish population: 168 in 1901; Jewish population in 1932/33: 132 (see below) Jews settled...
- Category: Residential
- Location: Geilenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Added Feb 19, 2020
Zuelpich Synagogue
"In 1848, the Jewish community inaugurated a new synagogue, with 70 seats for men and 40 for women, on Normannengasse...Zuelpich’s...
- Category: Synagogue
- Location: Zuelpich (Zülpich, Tolbiac, Tolbiacum), North Rhine-Westphalia
Added Feb 18, 2020
Zuelpich
First Jewish presence: 13th century; peak Jewish population: 113 in 1885; Jewish population in 1933: 91 Jews settled in Zuelpich...
- Category: Residential
- Location: Zuelpich (Zülpich, Tolbiac, Tolbiacum), North Rhine-Westphalia
Added Feb 18, 2020
Xanten Synagogue
"Local Jews established a prayer hall (on Schanstrasse) in the 1780s... On Pogrom Night (November 1938) in Xanten, rioters... damaged...
- Category: Synagogue
- Location: Xanten, North Rhine-Westphalia
Added Feb 18, 2020
Xanten
First Jewish presence: 11th century; peak Jewish population: 98 in 1843; Jewish population in 1933: unknown (14 in 1930) It...
- Category: Residential
- Location: Xanten, North Rhine-Westphalia
Added Feb 18, 2020
Weinberg Cemetery
"Elberfeld had three Jewish cemeteries... [one] on Weinberg after 1895." Benjamin Rosendahl Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to...
- Category: Cemetery
- Location: Wuppertal-Elberfeld (Elberfeld), North Rhine-Westphalia
Added Feb 18, 2020
Old Cemetery
"Elberfeld had three Jewish cemeteries: [one] at Engelnberg an der Weissenburgstrasse after 1810," Benjamin Rosendahl Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 -...
- Category: Cemetery
- Location: Wuppertal-Elberfeld (Elberfeld), North Rhine-Westphalia
Added Feb 18, 2020
Liberal synagogue
"Rabbi Levy Kleelberg inaugurated a new liberal synagogue on Genuegsamkeitsstrasse....On Pogrom Night, rioters vandalized the Orthodox synagogue and incinerated the...
- Category: Synagogue
- Location: Wuppertal-Elberfeld (Elberfeld), North Rhine-Westphalia
Added Feb 18, 2020
Wuppertal-Elberfeld
First Jewish presence: 1694; peak Jewish population: 2,335 in 1925; Jewish population in 1933: 2,471 or 3,000 Wuppertal’s first known...
- Category: Residential
- Location: Wuppertal-Elberfeld (Elberfeld), North Rhine-Westphalia
Added Feb 18, 2020
Wuppertal-Barmen Synagogue
" [In] 1895/96, when a synagogue was built in Barmen at 18 Scheurenstrasse (present-day Zur Scheuren); Ludwig Levy, the renowned...
- Category: Synagogue
- Location: Wuppertal-Barmen (Barmen), North Rhine-Westphalia
Added Feb 18, 2020
Wuppertal-Barmen
First Jewish presence: 1812; peak Jewish population: 721 in 1925; Jewish population in 1933: 720 (see below) The earliest record...
- Category: Residential
- Location: Wuppertal-Barmen (Barmen), North Rhine-Westphalia
Added Feb 18, 2020