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By the beginning of 1940 the Synagogen-Gemeinde had assumed
responsibility for all matters relating to the administration of the Jewish
community as well attending to religious and welfare matters. The Synagogen-
Gemeinde officially became known as the Jüdische Kultusvereinigung
(Synagogen Gemeinde E. V. Magdeburg) on 5 January 1940. 33 This organisation
was also later dissolved and the community was officially incorporated into the
Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland on 27 May 1941. The deregistration
was recorded on 8 August 1941. 34 Henceforth the former Synagogen-Gemeinde
became known as the Bezirksstelle Sachsen-Thüringen der Reichsvereinigung der
Juden in Deutschland Verwaltungsstelle Magdeburg. 35 This remained so until the
actual dissolution of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland itself on 10
June 1943. Until this time the former Synagogen-Gemeinde, in its altered state,
continued to function in its various capacities. 36
All matters relating to the Jewish community were administered through the
Jüdische Kultusvereinigung (Synagogen Gemeinde E. V. Magdeburg). This
included the issuing of financial assistance to the needy and attending to the
general welfare of the community; the collection of financial contributions by
33 Registration and dissolution of the Jüdische Kultusvereinigung Synagogen-
Gemeinde Magdeburg, 5 January 1940 – 9August 1941, Bestand Rep. C 129, Signatur
Nr. 20504, Band 7, LHASA MD, p. 189.
34 Ibid.
35 Correspondence from Dr Max Israel Kaufmann to the Amtsgericht Abtlg. 8 in
Magdeburg, 8 October 1941 indicates this change of name for the community and the
correspondence uses both the old and the new letterheads, Collection JM, File
11266.7, YVA, p. 297. In addition to this, numerous other documents from as early as
5 November 1941 bear the new name on the community’s official letterhead as, for
example, correspondence bearing the abovementioned new letterhead to the
Gerichtskasse Magdeburg, 5 November 1941, Bestand Rep. C 129, Signatur Nr. 2165,
LHASA MD, p. 298.
36 No archival material has survived indicating any imposed name changes or changes
of status of the Shtiblech for the period. It is most likely that that they were not
operational beyond the middle of 1939 at the very latest.