"In 1898, another synagogue [used by the Sterkrade community] was inaugurated, this time in nearby Oberhausen, on 24 Friedensstrasse...The synagogues in Oberhausen and Holten, were burned down under the supervision of the Oberhausen fire department [On Pogrom Night]."
Benjamin Rosendahl
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., Feuer in dein Heiligtum gelegt: Zerstörte Synagogen 1938 Nordrhein-Westfalen, Michael Brooke [Ed.], Meier Schwarz [foreword], [publisher] Kamp, 1999., Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Entrance

Details

Date Added Mar 25, 2020
Category Synagogue
Country DE
State North Rhine-Westphalia
City Oberhausen
Exhibits Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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