Oberhausen Synagogue
"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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