Alemannia Judaica

The Rosenberg couple (Siegmund and Adele, née Skolny) lived here in 1942. In 1943, the couple Freilich (Bernhard and Sophie, née Felsen) lived here. Between 1942 and 1944, the Jewish residents who remained until then were deported: on May 10, 1942, 17 people to the Bezlyce (Poland) ghetto, 41 more people the same year (all 58 were murdered), in 1943 and 1944, eleven people to the Auschwitz concentration camp and five to the Theresienstadt ghetto. According to the Altenburg historian Christian Repkewitz, the house was not a state-imposed  "Judenhaus". 

This is where the Oronowicz family lived from 1921 to 1942. Between 1942 and 1944, the Jewish residents of Altenburg who remained until then were deported: on May 10, 1942, 17 people to the Bezlyce (Poland) ghetto; in the same year, 41 more people (all 58 were murdered); in 1943 and 1944, eleven people to the Auschwitz concentration camp and five to the Theresienstadt ghetto. "Of the Oronowicz family, only father Markus and daughter Charlotte survived. The other family members are dedicated "Stolpersteine" in front of the house," writes Christian Repkewitz.  

Here lived between 1932 and 1942 the Loewy family (also: Löwy): Georg Walter (until 1938), Käthe (née Strumpfner) and Renate.

In addition, the Strumpfner family lived here between 1906 and 1942: Bruno (until 1932) and Hedwig (née Stern). Hewdig ran a store for men's and women's clothing from 1931 to 1938. 

The business belonged to Hedwig Blank, residing at Markt 10.

The property belonged to M. & S. Cohn. 

According to the handbook of the Jewish community administration of 1924/25, the Jewish community in Altenburg also included the Jewish family Ludwig and Alma Rotholz, who lived in Eisenberg and ran a clothing store in Eisenberg since about 1910 (Steinweg 6). After the death of her husband (Ludwig Rotholz, +21.2.1912) Alma Rotholz moved with her business to the corner house Marktgasse 2.

A synagogue was already present in Usingen at the beginning of the 19th century, although it was probably a prayer room in one of the Jewish residential houses. In 1852, a new synagogue and worship order was issued. In 1877 the synagogue was in such a dilapidated condition that it could not be renovated.

1418 lived in Altenburg 14 men considered as taxpayers.
. Eight of them supported themselves - on a small scale - from the money trade. Also a butcher selling only to Jews (Fleischsnider of the Jews) is mentioned. In this period the Jewish families formed a small community, which probably had a prayer room (synagogue) in Johannisgasse (probably in today's Johannisstraße 31). After 1430, the Jews of Altenburg were probably expelled. In the middle of the 15th century, no Jews lived in the city anymore. 

The mikvah, a component of the Jewish ghetto in the medieval Lorenzer old town, is preserved to this day and lies about nine meters below the sidewalk.

Until the inauguration of the synagogue at Jakobsplatz in 2006, the synagogue at Reichenbachstrasse 27 remained the main synagogue of the Munich Jewish community. The synagogue at Jakobsplatz bears the name of the synagogue in Herzog-Rudolf-Strasse, which was destroyed in the pogrom night of 1938.