The Guided Tour was developed by students of the Henriette-Goldschmidt School in Leipzig under the following aspects:
1) A time limit of 90 minutes
2) The former “Jewish houses” must be comfortably reached on foot
3) The concentration of “Jewish houses” in the Waldstrassen neighborhood would be shown
4) To facillitate showcasing the suffering that was forced upon these citizens of Leipzig and to make them vivid through short biographies.

Shout from a full throat, don’t cease, lift up your voice like a trumpet!

A Keilstraße 4
The first instance of a Jewish settlement in Leipzig is verified by the mention of a synagogue starting in 1230 A.D. The last detection of a Jewish population dates to 1446. Only in 1800, did a new settlement occur as a result of the Leipzig Trade Show, which led, in 1825, to the formation of a small Jewish community. From time to time, Leipzig had four synagogues and thirteen prayer houses. In 1925, with 12,594 parishioners, the city had the sixth largest Jewish community in Germany. The synagogue in Keil Street was opened in 1904 as “Brodyer Synagogue”. The Orthodox chapel was almost completely destroyed during the Pogrom Night of 1938.

Peace, peace, to those far and near - speaks the Eternal One, I will heal him

B Löhrstraße 10 (formerly: Walter-Blümel-Straße)
Starting in 1933, the disfranchisement of the Jews was carried out. With the "Law about rental relationships with Jews" of April 30, 1939, the forced relocation into so-called “Jewish houses” took place. They were houses owned by Jews that were cleared of “Aryan” renters. The 47 “Jewish houses” (1939) were the last, not voluntarily chosen, domicile of Leipzig’s Jews before their deportation. The house in 10 Löhr Street had been the seat of the Israeli religious community in Leipzig since 1920. Here, on orders of the Gestapo, the staff had to prepare the deportation lists. Since 1939, the house was one of the 47 “Jewish houses” and was “used” as such until 1945.