"The community inaugurated...a synagogue, on Altenbaustrasse, in 1894...On Pogrom Night, SA men smashed the synagogue’s windows, overturned its benches and hurled furnishings, ritual objects and books onto a bonfire...The former synagogue, renovated in 1990, now houses a permanent exhibition on Ahrweiler’s Jewish community. Amazingly, the original Torah curtain from 1882 was discovered in a Frankfurt art dealer’s shop and returned to the synagogue."
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., “und dies ist die Pforte des Himmels”: Synagogen Rheinland-Pfalz/Saarland, Will Schmid, Stefan Fischbach and Ingrid Westerhoff [Eds.], publication initiated by Joachim Glatz and Meier Schwarz, [publisher] Phillipp Von Zabern, 2005.

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