Livestock shop of the Levi family
Due to the National Socialist machinations and boycott measures, the first Jewish families emigrated as early as 1932/33, including cattle trader Siegmund Levi and his wife to Palestine.
Jewish school (Hildburghausen)
To take care of religious duties of the community was employed a teacher, who was also active as a prayer leader and shochet. In 1864, a private Jewish house was converted into a schoolhouse with a teacher's apartment. At the Lehrerseminar in Hildburghausen since the 1st half of the 19th century over several decades Jewish teachers were also trained.
Jewish Women's Association (Bleicherode)
The Israelite Women's Association of Bleicherode was founded in 1916. Ida Rothenberg, who lived at Burgstraße 7, was the chairwoman of the association in Bleicherode in 1924-32, whose purpose was to support the needy. Funerals also fell within his remit. At the time of Rothenberg's leadership, the association counted 30-40 members.
Jewish school (Bleicherode)
To take care of religious duties of the community was employed teacher who also served as a prayer leader and shochet.
Bauerbach (Grave Field)
In Bauerbach existed a Jewish community until 1938/41. Their emergence goes back to the time of the 17th/18th century . However, the oldest reference to Jews in the place is only a grave inscription of the Bauerbach cemetery from 1722.
In 1782 the Jew Mattich in Bauerbach, whom the poet Friedrich Schiller liked to meet during his stay in Bauerbach, and Jonas Oberländer, whom Schiller rescued from a life-threatening situation, are mentioned by name.
Karoline Kaulla
Karoline "Chaile" Kaulla is one of the most famous court actresses of the early modern period. Today she is best known as Madame Kaulla. After her father's death, she took over his business as court factor and continued to run the family business. Her responsibilities included army supplies as well as trade in horses, luxury goods and the granting of loans. Due to her success as court factor, she was considered the wealthiest German woman of her time. Few Jewish men received the privileges that came with the position of court factor.