Boykott des Schuhhauses Weiss, Spitalgasse 5, am 1.April 1933
The history of the Coburg Jews
This website is about the history of the Coburg Jewish community in the beginning of the 20th century until the year 1944.The Jewish culture of Coburg was systematically destroyed under Nazi rule, Jewish citizens had to flee the city and Germany or were discriminated, humiliated, persecuted, arrested, tortured and finally taken to the extermination camps.
There was an exhibition on this subject by the Evangelisches Bildungswerk Coburg e.V. and the Initiative Stadtmuseum Coburg e.V. in 2004. The exhibition forms the basic framework of this homepage.
Coburg was the first city in Germany to be governed by National Socialism before 1933. Together with the SA, the NSDAP was able to test methods here that they would later implement throughout the Reich: völkisch communal ideology, rule by terror, ostracism of the Jewish population, attacks against dissidents.
We want the memory of the Jewish people who lived in Coburg to be preserved. The focus is on the remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust. But we also hope that our work will encourage further research into Coburg’s (Nazi) history and open up paths to an intercultural understanding of the present.