Singhofen

Summary: We do not know much about the Jews who lived here before the founding of an official Jewish community in the early 1880s, but records do tell us that they laid a cemetery in 1863. The community, joined by Jews from four nearby towns, drew up plans for a synagogue in 1870; construction was completed in 1878. Local Jews never established an official school but, rather, employed a teacher who gave religious instruction three times a week. Jews and Christians coexisted peacefully in Singhofen until 1933, when the Nazis implemented their anti-Jewish boycott. By 1938, nearly all Jews had left the town. The only available information about Pogrom Night in Singhofen is that the abandoned synagogue was ransacked. In 1964, the synagogue was torn down to make room for an apartment building.

Author / Sources: Moshe Finkel Sources: EJL, SG-RPS