Jewish Families in Scheindorf
(Addendum completed by Jerry Boyle)

by Stefan Schmied
Translated by Gerald "Jerry" Thomas Boyle

     In 1912, there were three individuals of the Jewish faith living in Scheindorf. In 1930, there were 19. Before the start of World War II, there were five Jewish families in Scheindorf. During the war, the Nazis took all of the Jewish families to the extermination camps. The women and children were all killed. The men who survived being used as slave labor by the Nazis returned to Scheindorf after the war and shortly afterwards moved to the British-controlled country of Palestine. Part of Palestine became the country of Israel in 1948. The other parts of Palestine were taken over by Egypt and Jordan. At least one Scheindorfer Swabian kept in contact with one of the Jewish men who survived the Nazi death camps. That person was Francisca Tom Sieber. Francisca Tom Sieber and her family moved to Clifton, New Jersey, USA in the 1960's from Scheindorf. When Mary and John Weiss (my Grandparents) and other former Scheindorfers visited Israel in the early 1970's, they met with this man in Jerusalem.