"In 1844, the Ebersheim Jewish community inaugurated a synagogue at 7 Mainzer Strasse (present-day 6 Konrad Adenauer Strasse).... In 1933, when 25 Jews lived in Ebersheim, synagogue services were held only on Shabbat and holidays. On Pogrom Night, 1938—13 Jews lived in Ebersheim that year—Nazis set fire to the synagogue, destroying the interior, and heavily damaged five Jewish homes...In 1956, the former synagogue building was demolished. A memorial plaque was later unveiled in Ebersheim to commemorate the destroyed community and its synagogue."
Esther Sarah Evans
Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

Notes

Sources: Pinkas HaKehillot Germania/ פנקס הקהילות גרמניה (Hebrew), [published by] Yad Vashem, 1992: Hesse,Hesse-Nassau, Frankfurt , “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., Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Entrance www.ebersheim.de www.mainz.de

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Date Added Apr 20, 2020
Category Synagogue
Country DE
State Rhineland-Palatinate
City Ebersheim
Exhibits Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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