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The Jewish Community of Wuerzburg and Lower Franconia or Israelite Community of Wuerzburg has over 1000 members today. The history of the Jews in Würzburg begins in the Middle Ages. After several expulsions in the early modern period, a new community was founded in the 19th century. Immediately after the end of the Second World War, about 20 members of the pre-war community returned from the concentration camp Theresienstadt. They formed a new Jewish community, which experienced a large increase from 1991 onwards with immigrants from the former Soviet Union.

A local Jewish community can be proved at least since 1730 by the Jewish cemetery, documented since then, which belonged to the relatively large Jewish community of Gudensberg and for a long time was also the burial place of Jews from a number of other Jewish communities in the surrounding area. In 1835 there were already 45 Jewish inhabitants in Obervorschütz itself; in 1861 there were 47. In the last quarter of the 19th century their number declined sharply due to emigration to the USA and migration to larger German cities, so that in 1905 there were only 19 Jews living in the village.

The antecedents of the Jewish community of Karlsruhe date back to the Middle Ages. The community has existed since about 1717, interrupted in the years 1940 to 1945. It is part of the Israelite Religious Community of Baden.

In Emden there was a Jewish community until 1938/40. Its origin goes back to the time of the 16th century. According to old, historically not provable legends there should have been Jewish women*Jews in the city already in the antiquity. Already after the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus (70 AD) Jewish prisoners are said to have been put ashore in Emden. According to the Frisian historian Eggerik Beninga (1490-1562; Chronik van Oostfriesland. E.

In Aschaffenburg, a first Jewish cemetery was established in 1890. It is adjacent to the main municipal cemetery, from which it is separated by a wire mesh fence or hedge. A large tahara house stands next to the main entrance gate. During the Nazi period the cemetery was desecrated. The cemetery area covers 22,50 ar. 

The New Jewish Cemetery in Munich is located in the Freimann district. After it was already foreseeable in the 1880s that the old cemetery could no longer be expanded, a suitable site was sought for the new construction of a cemetery. In 1904, such a site was found on Ungererstrasse. The cemetery could be occupied from July 1, 1908. Today the cemetery covers an area of more than 5 hectares and has 22 grave sections. It is surrounded by a total of 966.50 m long concrete wall.

A medieval cemetery was originally located west of the city, since its expansion in 1437 within the walls, on today's street Am Jägersbrunnen. Also foreign Jews were buried here. Almost no traces of the medieval cemetery have survived. A gravestone found at the beginning of the 20th century, which was in the possession of the Jewish community, dated March 31, 1446, is in the Central Archives Jerusalem.
   

The Jewish cemetery at Grindel is named after its Hamburg neighborhood Grindel, which is located in the district of Rotherbaum. The cemetery was  laid out as early as 1712 on the outskirts of the city and initially served as a burial place for the poor and servants. It was not until 1835 that the cemetery became the main cemetery of the High German Jewish Community and the Portuguese Community in Hamburg, located in the Grindelviertel.  Only a few years later in 1909 the last burial took place and due to full occupancy the cemetery was closed.

The cemetery of the Jewish community of Hanover was established in 1924, after the cemetery "An der Strangriede", which served 60 years in as a burial ground, reached its capacity. The mourning hall, built in 1929, was designed by Werner Koech. In 1938 the cemetery was desecrated. The mourning hall was destroyed by arson. In 1945, more than 300 urns containing the ashes of Jewish concentration camp prisoners were interred. The cemetery land was acquired by the then post-war community in 1959. In 1960, a new mourning hall was built according to a design by Zvi Guttmann. 

It is unclear when the suburban Jewish cemetery had been established. Presumably, it had emerged from a private burial place of the Schutzjuden Isaak Aron, who died in 1694. It was located on today's Berliner Ring and is a protected monument.
The cemetery, like the synagogue, was also desecrated during the November pogrom on November 9, 1938.