Mülheim am Rhein Synagogue

During the November pogroms the synagogue was set on fire in the early morning hours of 10 November 1938 and largely destroyed. The congregation's archive has been considered lost ever since. In the course of the „Aryanization“ of Jewish property, the plot with the ruin was sold on 7 August 1942; the residential house built there was destroyed by bombing in 1944. The teachers Leopold Vogel and Israel Janowski, who taught in Mülheim into the 1930s, perished with their families in Majdanek and Theresienstadt.

After the Nazi era, the re-established Cologne synagogue community applied in 1948 for restitution of the plot, which was granted by court order in 1954. The remaining ruins were removed in the summer of 1956, and a multi-family house was built on the site of the former community house. A memorial plaque at Mülheimer Freiheit 78 marks the location, bearing the inscription: „Im Hause Mülheimer Freiheit 78 befand sich bis 1938 die Mülheimer Synagoge. Sie wurde ebenso wie die kleine Religionsschule für jüdische Mülheimer Kinder am 9.11.1938 zerstört.“ (In the house at Mülheimer Freiheit 78 stood the Mülheim synagogue until 1938. Like the small religious school for Jewish children of Mülheim, it was destroyed on 9 November 1938.) The community's deceased members were buried at the Jewish Cemetery Cologne-Mülheim.