German Jews facts for kids

German Jews are Jews of German descent, or Jews living in Germany.

Holocaust

170,000 German Jews were killed in the camps during the Holocaust.

Images for kids

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  Jews wearing the pileus cornutus depicted ca. 1185 in the Hortus deliciarum of the Abbess Herrad of Landsberg.

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  Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII meeting Jews in Rome, 1312

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  Jews burned alive for the alleged host desecration in Deggendorf, Bavaria, in 1338, and in Sternberg, Mecklenburg, in 1492; a woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)

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  Moses Mendelssohn

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  David Friedländer was a German-Jewish communal leader who promoted Jewish emancipation in the Holy Roman Empire.

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  The synagogue in Celle was built in 1740 and is still in use.

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  "The Return of the Volunteer from the Wars of Liberation to His Family Still Living in Accordance with Old Customs", by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim

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  Map of the Hep-Hep riots in 1819 (German)

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  1890: Gustav Ermann, a Jewish soldier in the German Kaiser's army, born in Saarbrücken

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  A leaflet published in 1920 by the Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten (German Jewish veterans organization) in response to accusations of lack of patriotism: Inscription on the tomb: "12,000 Jewish soldiers died on the field of honor for the fatherland".

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  Willi Ermann of Saarbrücken, a German Jewish soldier in World War I: Ermann was murdered at Auschwitz in the Holocaust.

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  The headstones of the fallen Jewish soldiers who fought for Germany in World War I were removed during World War II, and were later replaced. This cemetery is in northern France.

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  Heidelberg University was considered to be one of the most eminent institutions of Jewish-German learning.

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  Taken in March 1933, immediately after the Nazis seized power, this photo shows Nazi SA militants forcing a Jewish lawyer to walk barefoot through the streets of Munich wearing a sign that says "I will never again complain to the police"

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  The boycott of April 1, 1933

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  German Jewish passports could be used to leave, but not to return.

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  Synagogue at Nuremberg, c. 1890–1900. The structure was destroyed in 1938.

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  Jews emigrating from Berlin to the United States, 1939

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  Jews are deported from Würzburg to the Lublin District of Poland, April 25, 1942

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  Public menorah in Karlsruhe

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  The Central Council of Jews in Germany is the nationally sanctioned organization to manage the German-Jewish community.

See also

In Spanish: Historia de los judíos en Alemania para niños