Introduction - Documenting Maine Jewry

This section of the Documenting Maine Jewry project has information on Maine Jews with strong ties to Germany.

Nelson siblings in Poland, circa 1906

Information is available on

165 individual Jews with strong ties to Germany of which 165 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
37 burial records in Jewish cemeteries, including 25 which have headstone images
2 organizations important to the Germany Jewish community

The coordinator(s) of this site, , would welcome additional photographs, documents and oral histories sent to history@mainejewishmuseum.org.