Mogendorf

Residential - Mogendorf, Rhineland-Palatinate

First Jewish presence: 1696; peak Jewish population: 114 in 1871 (16.3% of the total population); Jewish population in 1933: 20

By 1746, if not earlier, the Jews of Mogendorf had established a prayer room in a private residence. Later, in 1850, they inaugurated a synagogue on Fuhrgasse; the new synagogue accommodated 80 men, 25 women, a school and a mikveh. Burials were conducted in nearby Selters. In 1933, two children studied religion with a teacher from Selters. (According to records, the community was able to employ a teacher in the late 1800s.) On the morning after Pogrom Night, the village’s Jews were locked in the school house as axe-wielding SS men in civilian clothing destroyed the synagogue’s interior, Jewish homes and Jewish-owned properties; neighboring residents, concerned for the safety of their own homes, prevented the SS from setting fire to the synagogue. Eight Jews left Mogendorf before Pogrom Night, and the rest fled soon afterwards, the last leaving in 1939. At least eight local Jews perished in the Shoah. Wartime aerial bombings further damaged the synagogue. In 1952, a local Evangelical church acquired the building. Subsequent renovations removed all traces of the former synagogue.

Esther Sarah Evans

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., Die Juden von Mogendorf, Helwig Koch, 1995., Pinkas HaKehillot Germania/ פנקס הקהילות גרמניה (Hebrew), [published by] Yad Vashem, 1992: Hesse,Hesse-Nassau, Frankfurt , “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., Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Entrance

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Date Added	May 12, 2020
Category	Residential
Country	DE
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
City	Mogendorf
Exhibits	Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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Mogendorf

First Jewish presence: 1696; peak Jewish population: 114 in 1871 (16.3% of the total population); Jewish population in 1933: 20

Esther Sarah Evans

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

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