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SCHWANDORF: 92421 Bavaria, Oberpfalz (Peters)
The memorial, with inscription in Hebrew for victims of concentration camps, has been removed. Remains of the victims have been transferred to another memorial. There may have been a Jewish community from 1300-1600, again from 1927-38, and again a temporary 1945-50 settlement of Displaced Persons. Source: Steinerne Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Bayern; eine Dokumentation, 2nd ed. by Israel Schwierz. München: Bayerische Landes- zentrale für politische Bildungsarbeit 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0, 368 pp. [1st ed. 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X, 352 pp.].
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