A mandatory school for Jewish children existed in Freiburg from 1936 to 1940.  Over sixty students were taught in two classrooms of the present-day Lessing School.

Remembrances of the mandatory school faded from memory. However, since 2001, the history of the mandatory school has been researched and revived through the work of the History Workshop and has been made public. Since 2004 a memorial plaque has been in place.

Survivors have related their family history to participants of the Workshop.  On this website you can learn of the fate of the students’ families.

The cover picture comes from the estate of Wiltrude Hene-Lavelle and shows a jewish group of pupils on an excursion with the teacher Adolf Reutlinger.