In 1939, there were still 225 Jews living in Regensburg. Seventy-six of them had succeeded in leaving the city by the summer of 1942: about half immigrated to the US, Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) and Britain, and the remainder departed for a variety of destinations, principally in Europe and South America. Even though many had left, the number of Jews in Regensburg did not change as Jews from other places in Germany moved there in order to escape persecution.The Jews who stayed in Regensburg were forced to live in two buildings designated for Jews only, one of them being the senior citizens’ home. They remained there until shortly before the deportations to the East began.
![German guards supervise the assembly of the Jews of Regensburg during their deportation, 1942](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/4613_19.jpg?itok=ZiUaa5OH)
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![German guards supervise the assembly of the Jews of Regensburg during their deportation, 1942](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/4613_19.jpg?itok=_EsRDjp0)
![Document dated 16 September 1942 bearing instructions from the Gestapo headquarters in Würzburg regarding the deportation of the Jews of Regensburg.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/195_D31.jpg?itok=YRKlhn5E)
The deportation was carried out on 23 September 1942.
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![Document dated 16 September 1942 bearing instructions from the Gestapo headquarters in Würzburg regarding the deportation of the Jews of Regensburg.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/195_D31.jpg?itok=AuPcUqtL)
![Alice Brandis (née Holzinger) from Regensburg, mother of Karl Brandis](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/9182_2_0.jpg?itok=1f9mcrJA)
Alice was deported to Poland in April 1942 and murdered during the Holocaust, probably in the Sobibor extermination camp.
A Page of Testimony was submitted in her memory.
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![Alice Brandis (née Holzinger) from Regensburg, mother of Karl Brandis](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/9182_2_0.jpg?itok=gsvTkrFe)
![Ottmar Holzinger from Regensburg](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/9182_1.jpg?itok=gAuayy4i)
The photograph is taken from his passport, which was still valid during the Nazi period. Holzinger was murdered during the Holocaust.
His son submitted a Page of Testimony in his memory.
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![Ottmar Holzinger from Regensburg](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/9182_1.jpg?itok=SDI-wx8i)
![Page from the passport of Ottmar Holzinger of Regensburg, which was still valid during the Nazi period.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/00016_0.jpg?itok=4y9X_rjN)
Holzinger was murdered during the Holocaust. His son submitted a
Page of Testimony in his memory.
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![Page from the passport of Ottmar Holzinger of Regensburg, which was still valid during the Nazi period.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/00016_0.jpg?itok=NeXi9a9K)
![Dayan of the Jewish community in Regensburg, Jakow Josef Lewkowitz](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/195_D50.jpg?itok=5BkI_3bk)
Lewkowitz was deported to Poland in 1942 and murdered during the Holocaust.
A Page of Testimony was submitted in his memory.
Yad Vashem Photo Archives FA195/D50
![Dayan of the Jewish community in Regensburg, Jakow Josef Lewkowitz](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/195_D50.jpg?itok=dzZCF4Iw)
![Memorial ceremony in the Regensburg Christian cemetery](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/3190_1.jpg?itok=YKeXBEIo)
The ceremony was held next to the tombstone erected over the mass grave of 130 Jewish men murdered during the Holocaust and buried by the US Army.
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![Memorial ceremony in the Regensburg Christian cemetery](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/3190_1.jpg?itok=Q7Dxg822)