Jewish Families in Scheindorf (Addendum)

      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 returned to Scheindorf after the war and shortly afterwards moved to Palestine. Palestine became the state of Israel in 1948. At least one Scheindorfer Swabian kept in contact with one of these men. That person was Francisca Tom Sieber. She and her family moved to Clifton, New Jersey, USA in the 1960's from Scheindorf. When Mary and John Weiss and other former Scheindorfers visited Israel in the early 1970's, they met with this man in Jerusalem.