Wildeshausen Synagogue

"1830, when the community procured a shack at 30 Huntestrasse and remodeled it as a synagogue with a prayer room, a schoolroom and an apartment for the teacher... Although the synagogue was sold before the Pogrom Night of November 1938, members of the SA and fire department destroyed the building that night... In 1997, a granite memorial was erected at the former synagogue site."
Esther Sarah Evans
Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

Notes

Sources: The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Shmuel Spector [Ed.], [publisher] Yad Vashem and the New York University Press, 2001., Historisches Handbuch der jüdischen Gemeinden in Niedersachsen und Bremen, Herbert Obenhaus, David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel [Eds.], [publisher] Wallstein Verlag, 2005.

Details

Date Added Feb 03, 2020
Category Synagogue
Country DE
State Lower Saxony
City Wildeshausen
Exhibits Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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