Telgte New Synagogue
"Telgte’s new synagogue was built on 43 Koenigsstrasse in 1875; it housed a schoolroom and, on the second floor, an apartment for the teacher...On Pogrom Night, SA men smashed windows in... the synagogue. Aided by local students, they destroyed the synagogue’s interior, threw out ritual objects and demolished the Star of David on the gable. Firefighters extinguished the fire, but it was reignited the following night, after which the building burned down completely...in 1981, a bronze plaque commemorating the synagogue was unveiled in the town."
Ruth Martina Trucks
Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com
Notes
Sources: Lexikon der jüdischen Gemeinde in Deutschen Sprachraum, Klaus Dieter-Alicke, [publisher] Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2008., Feuer in dein Heiligtum gelegt: Zerstörte Synagogen 1938 Nordrhein-Westfalen, Michael Brooke [Ed.], Meier Schwarz [foreword], [publisher] Kamp, 1999.
Details
| Date Added | Mar 25, 2020 |
|---|---|
| Category | Synagogue |
| Country | DE |
| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| City | Telgte |
| Exhibits | Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany |
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