Jewish Community Kempten (Allgäu)

A first Jewish community or settlement of Jews in Kempten can be documented for the 14th century. In 1875 the Kempten community merged with the one from Memmingen at the insistence of the Swabian government. This wish on the part of the government had been expressed since 1872.[1] After the persecution of Jews during the National Socialist era, a small number of Jews founded a new Jewish community, which, however, became extinct again shortly thereafter.