Limburg, Germany

Limburg Hesse-Nassau,Germany. Jews living in Limburg founded a community but fell victim to the Black Death persecutions of 1348-49. The community which was established later worshiped in a disused church from 1876 until 1903 – when it dedicated a big new synagogue and numbered 281 in 1910. Under the Weimar Republic, branches of the Central Union (C.V.) and Jewish War Veterans Association were active. From 244 in 1933, the community dwindled to 67 in November 1938. SS troops organized a pogrom on Kristallnacht (9-10 November 1938), and burned down the synagogue. Men, women, and children, were imprisoned. Altogether, 79 Jews emigrated and 117 moved to other German cities; at least 20 perished in the Holocaust.