Jewish Community

After the end of World War II, numerous survivors of concentration camps were taken into DP camps (camps of displaced persons) in Regensburg and the surrounding area (US zone) on the basis of the authorization of the American military administration. They were joined by survivors from Poland who had fled new pogroms in Poland (1946). In 1945, a Jewish DP (Displaced Persons) community (Jewish Community) was founded in Regensburg, whose chairmen were Jakob Gottlieb and Efraim Brenner.

After the end of the war, a new Jewish community was founded in Bayreuth by survivors of concentration camps who were taken in as "displaced persons" in the American zone. In November 1945, 184 Jewish persons were counted in Bayreuth, in July 1946 there were 400, a year later over 500 persons. The centers of the "Jewish DP Community" in Bayreuth were at Heinrich-Schütz-Strasse 6 and Lisztstrasse 12. The chairmen of the Jewish DP community were Abraham Brillant and Felix Kugelmann.

The community belonged to the rabbinical district Kaiserslautern. Beginnings of first organized Jewish life can be found in 1808 with a room that was used for religious services. 

In Heppenheim an der Wiese Jews could settle probably since the beginning of the 18th century  1722 two Jewish families were in the place, 1743 one family.

Inh. Isaak Kahn

After 1945, initially only a few Jewish people moved back in the city (survivors from concentration camps, only a few of them from pre-war Erfurt.). A first community center was built in rented rooms Am Anger 30/32, until on August 31, 1952 (10 Ellul 5712) a new synagogue with community center could be inaugurated.

Only towards the end of the 19th century again a Jewish community called "Israelitische Vereinigung" was established in a rented room of a back house in the Pauritzer Gasse (today's Pauritzer Straße), to which largely Jewish families from Eastern European countries belonged. The first influx of Jewish families began in the late 1860s. In 1868, a Wilhelm Wolff registered a text business in Altenburg. From the association an independent religious community was formed at the end of the 1920s.

History

Traces of Jewish life in Nuremberg go back far into the Middle Ages. As early as the beginning of the 12th century, Jews*Jewesses from surrounding regions find themselves fleeing persecution and settle in Nuremberg.