Memorial City Moers

With Kristallnacht on 10 November 1938 ended the existence of the Jewish community Moers. At the site of earlier Friedrichstrasse 27 was since 1818 the Jewish synagogue. Prior to the Jewish Community of Moers the Jews celebrated their worship in private homes. Jews are attested in Moers first time since 1713th and in 1723 eleven families lived here. The first head of the Jewish community Hertz Levi was buried in 1774 in the Jewish cemetery Krefeld.

The Jewish cemetery on Klever Straße (cemetery Moers) was not created until the early 19th century. The Jewish community acquired two houses in the old town in 1818. One apartment housed the synagogue servant and a meeting room, the other house served as a synagogue itself. In the entrance there was a plaque for the fallen in World War II. As the synagogue community could not afford rabbis, teachers of the Jewish school took over its tasks

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• Text: Henny van Loenen
• Photos: Henny van Loenen