Tirschtiegel
General information: First Jewish presence: 1745; peak Jewish population: unknown; Jewish population in 1932: 22
Summary: Although it is likely that Jews lived in Tirschtiegel (presentday
Trzciel, Poland) in the 17th century, the earliest record
of their presence there is dated 1745. Approximately 250
Jews, most of whom were poor, lived in Tirschtiegel in the
late 18th century (253 in 1772), at which point plans for the
construction of a synagogue were drawn up. Beginning in
1789, the community employed a rabbi. The town was home
to a Jewish school (founded in the 19th century); the school
was closed down shortly before World War I as a result of
low enrollment numbers.
Tirschtiegel’s Jewish population dropped markedly during
the early 1930s. On Pogrom Night (November 1938), rioters
torched the synagogue and demolished the town’s last Jewishowned
house. Later, in the spring of 1940 (a slave labor camp
for Jews had been established in Tirschtiegel at the beginning
of the war) the remaining Jews were interned in a camp near
Schneidemuehl and were, later, deported to the East. Today,
the site of the former synagogue accommodates a fire station
and a storage facility.
Author / Sources: Fred Gottlieb
Sources: EJL, LJG
Sources: EJL, LJG
Located in: posen-west-prussia