Nalbach Synagogue
"1854, when a synagogue was inaugurated in Nalbach (at 17 Mittelstrasse). Although the synagogue burned down in 1890, it was rebuilt soon afterwards and renovated in 1922...The synagogue was sold in 1937, after which a section of the building was demolished...On Pogrom Night... what remained of the synagogue’s interior was demolished... The synagogue, damaged by artillery fire during the war and later used as a storage site for agricultural products, was demolished in 1951."
Esther Sarah Evans
Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com
Notes
Sources: Alemannia Judaica, www.alemannia-judaica.de , The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Shmuel Spector [Ed.], [publisher] Yad Vashem and the New York University Press, 2001.
Details
| Date Added | Feb 05, 2020 |
|---|---|
| Category | Synagogue |
| Country | DE |
| State | Saarland |
| City | Nalbach |
| Exhibits | Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany |
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