Dornum is a village and a municipality in the East Frisian district of Aurich, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

The synagogue was deconsecrated and sold on 7 November 1938 for 600 Reichsmarks to the neighboring master carpenter August Tessmer, who subsequently used it as a storeroom.

Sturmabteilung troops arrested all the Jewish residents of the town that night and deported them to neighboring Norden, where other Jews from the district were also rounded up.

The elderly, women, and children were released on the morning of 10 November, the men were deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, from which they only returned weeks later.

The Czech Republic and Austria receive gas through Europipe II at Dornum.