Weimar

In Weimar lived Jews already in the Middle Ages. For the first time Jewish inhabitants are mentioned at the beginning of the 14th century. From the persecution of Jews in the plague period 1348/49 were probably also the Jews of Weimar affected. After that, according to an uncertain source, a Weimar Jew is only mentioned again in 1379. A secure mention is available from 1390  1418 there were eight adult gainfully employed Jewess*Jews in the city (six men, two women in six families). They lived from money trade. Nothing is known about an expulsion of Weimar Jews at the end of the Middle Ages. 

A new community formed in Weimar only again in the 19th century. Its emergence dates back to the time of the 18th century  

Until the beginning of the 1930s, there were several small Jewish stores in the trade and service sector, in addition there was a department store of "Bermann Tiertz" at the market and of "Sachs & Berlowitz" in the Schillerstrasse. The former, in 2015 by arson destroyed livestock auction hall near the train station was collection point at the deportation of the Thuringian Jews from 1942. 877 Jewish people were deported from here. In 1933, 91 Jewish people lived in the town. In the following years, some of the community members moved away or emigrated due to the consequences of the economic boycott, increasing disenfranchisement and reprisals.