Primary education continued for a long time according to traditional methods, and in the home of the religious teacher, who usually also held other positions, such as that of cantor.
The education system was only adapted to the requirements of the Ordinance on Jewish Education of 1817 in the second half of the 1840s. Due to a lack of space in the municipal schools, Jewish children did not receive education in the regular subjects. It was not until 1850 that non-Jewish subjects were also taught. The Jewish school in Nijkerk had 20 pupils in 1848, 29 in 1854, 35 in 1859 and 27 in 1863. Pupils were aged 6 to 13 and were divided into 2 classes. The school later moved to the Kloosterstraat.
During the years of occupation 1940-1945, the Jewish Community held its synagogue services in the Jewish school in the Kloosterstraat, which had been renovated in 1928. In the winter of 1940, after an invasion by German soldiers, the synagogue was no longer used. Later, the synagogue was badly damaged by a direct hit from a grenade.
Jewish men were forced to work indiscriminately on the repair of the Laakweg. On 10 April 1943, all Nijkerk Jews were transferred to Camp Vught and later deported from there to Westerbork and the extermination camps.
From Pinkas, the history of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands, published in 1992 by Kluwer, NIK and JHM - abbreviated parts from the chapter Nijkerk pp. 474-476.