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Jüdisches Museum Zimmermann-Strauß
Jüdisches Museum Zimmermann-Strauß
63667 Nidda
By appointment
Rev. Dr. W. Stingl collected many Jewish cultural items. The house at Raun 62 was owned by the Stern family until their forced emigration. It was acquired with the help of Siegfried (Fred) Strauss, a former Jewish citizen. Therefore, the museum bears the family names of his parents: Zimmermann-Strauss. Fred Strauss helped to finance the memorial stone at the Johanniter Tower and had a stele in the form of an obelisk made at the Jewish cemetery with the names of all members of the Jewish community murdered during the Shoah. It was also important to him that the fate of the Jews from the Sudeten region and their share in German cultural life was researched. A memorable sentence by Strauss testifies to this: "The Jews from Nidda were taken away in a cattle car. In a cattle car his later friend Stingl was brought to Nidda after the war by the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia."