Pinkas Hakehillot Germany: Adorf, Germany

“Adorf”
Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities:
Germany volume 3
(Germany)

51°22' / 08°48'

Translation from Pinkas ha-kehilot Germanyah

Published in Jerusalem, 1992

Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator and Translator

Our sincere appreciation to Yad Vashem for permission
to put this material on the JewishGen web site.

This is a translation from: Pinkas Hakehillot: Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities, Germany
Volume 3, page 355, published by Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 1992

This material is made available by JewishGen, Inc. and the Yizkor Book Project for the purpose of
fulfilling our mission of disseminating information about the Holocaust and destroyed Jewish communities.
This material may not be copied, sold or bartered without JewishGen, Inc.'s permission. Rights may be reserved by the copyright holder.

JewishGen, Inc. makes no representations regarding the accuracy of the translation. The reader may wish to refer to the original material for verification.
JewishGen is not responsible for inaccuracies or omissions in the original work and cannot rewrite or edit the text to correct inaccuracies and/or omissions.
Our mission is to produce a translation of the original work and we cannot verify the accuracy of statements or alter facts cited.

[Page 355]

Adorf, Germany
(a village in the Waldeck District, today a part of the village Diemelsee)

Year	Number of Residents	Number of Jews	Percent Jewish
1826		45
1847		41
1900	1,148	33	2.9
1910	1,112	26	2.4
1925	1,110	14	1.3
1933	1,160	19	1.6
1939	1,137	3	0.3

Religious Affiliation by Percentage in 1925

Jews Catholics Protestants Others

1.3 0.8 95.4 2.5

From the History of the Community

In 1802, four Jewish families lived in Adorf; in 1826, 8 families; and in 1847, six. In 1838, the Jewish cemetery was opened and nearby, at the same time, the community was established. There also was a synagogue there. The community belonged to the rabbinical district of Kassel. On the eve of the Nazi rise to power, Eduard Mosheim was its leader.

In September of 1935, windows of Jewish homes were shattered.

Between the summer of 1936 and the end of 1937, 12 of the Jews of Adorf moved to other cities in Germany, and one emigrated to Brazil. The communal structure disbanded before the Fall of 1938 and its holy objects were taken to Kassel. On Kristallnacht the synagogue was damaged.

With the outbreak of the Second World War, three Jews remained in Adorf. Two of them were brought on Nov. 11, 1941, to Wrexen, and one apparently stayed in the place and passed away in 1947. At least one of the community's members perished in the Holocaust.

Today the cemetery (885 square meters) is part of the municipality of Diemelsee.

Yizkor Book Project JewishGen Home Page

Yizkor Book Director, Lance Ackerfeld
Emerita Yizkor Book Project Manager, Joyce Field z”l
Contact person for this translation
This web page created by Lance Ackerfeld