Gau-Odernheim Synagogue
"Gau-Odernheim was home to a prayer hall in the 19th century, presumably used until the establishment, in 1868, of a synagogue on Mainzer Strasse...Damaged on Pogrom Night, the synagogue building was later used as a camp for girls from local farming families. Records from 1940 indicate that the town authorities invested a lot of money in renovating the former synagogue and converting it into an apartment block...All traces of the former synagogue were removed during the renovation process."
Bronagh Bowerman
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., 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., Synagogen Internet Archiv, www.synagogen.info
Details
| Date Added | Apr 20, 2020 |
|---|---|
| Category | Synagogue |
| Country | DE |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| City | Gau-Odernheim |
| Exhibits | Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany |
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