Floersheim, Germany

Floersheim Hesse-Nassau, Germany. Jews settled there in the early 17th century and their synagogue (dating from 1718) was the oldest in Nassau. Numbering 114 in 1842, the community declined to 45 (1% of the total) in 1905. Under the Weimar Republic, it drew members from neighboring villages and was affiliated with the rabbinate of Wiesbaden. Thirty Jews remained on Kristallnacht (9-10 November 1938), when the synagogue was vandalized by SS troops from Ruesselsheim. Of the 45 Jews who left after 1933, 21 emigrated; ten perished in Nazi death camps.