"There used to be two sisters ..."
A photo and a letter from Berta and Rachel, the daughters of the last synagogue servant in Kitzingen, have been preserved. These letters from 1937 and 1938 reveal their very different characters, but also the already precarious living situation of Jewish women: in the face of anti-Semitic activities in town and country, they vacillated between repression and retreat, hope and fear, perseverance and the desire to leave.
Starting at the sisters' parents' house next to the Old Synagogue, we follow the traces and fates of Jewish women from Kitzingen in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on a walk through the town. Their residential and commercial buildings still characterise the townscape. Where did they come from, how did they live and do business with their families? Did they attend the synagogue and the "women's baths"? Who belonged to the Chewra Kaddischa? Is there a gravestone for them or a stumbling block and descendants somewhere in the world who read their letters, tell anecdotes about them or commemorate them on their anniversary?
Duration: approx. 2 hoursPrice
: €9.00 per
personIncluded: expert guided tour by the Friends of the Former
Kitzingen SynagogueMeeting point:Landwehrplatz 1 / Former Kitzingen
SynagogueDate in 2026: 29 March | 2.00 pm
Registration
Kitzingen Tourist Information
Telephone: 09321 20 8888 | tourismus@stadt-kitzingen.de
Registration only possible online for individual appointments
Further guided tours on Jewish themes can also be booked for groups on request!
(Wine trade, for young people, on Stolpersteine/biographies, on Jewish buildings in the cityscape)