Frankenwinheim, Germany

Jews are known from the second half of the 18th century and numbered 100 in 1837 (total 546) with a synagogue and public school. In 1933, 54 Jews remained. Anti-Jewish riots broke out in October 1938 in a well-poisoning libel and on “Kristallnacht” (9 – 10 November 1938) Jewish women were forced to burn the religious articles taken out of the synagogue. Jewish homes were also destroyed and valuables stolen. Five men were imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Twenty-two Jews emigrated in 1938-41 and 20 left for other German cities in 1935-1940. Of the remaining Jews, 13 were deported to Izbica in the Lublin district (Poland) via Wuerzburg on 24 April 1942.