Hassloch Synagogue

Synagogue - Hassloch (Haßloch), Rhineland-Palatnate

(That same year, [1846] a synagogue was opened at 1 Gillergasse: religious services were conducted upstairs, for the lower floor housed a classroom and a residential apartment; the mikveh, located in the yard, was renovated in 1881...On Pogrom Night, Nazis wrecked the synagogue’s interior and burned its ritual objects and furnishings in the yard. The building was set on fire twice: the first blaze died out and the second was extinguished by a local man who wanted to protect his neighboring barn...Four months later, in March 1939, the synagogue was sold...After the war, the former synagogue and school were given to the Jewish community of Rhineland-Pfalz. The synagogue was torn down in 1978, and its plot was sold in 1979. The community retained ownership of the school building, to which a memorial plaque was affixed in November 1984."

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., Führer durch die Jüdische Gemeindeverwaltung und Wohlfahrtspflege in Deutschland 1923-1933, Andreas Nachama, Simon Hermann [Eds.], [publisher] Edition Hentrich, 1995., “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

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Date Added	Apr 20, 2020
Category	Synagogue
Country	DE
State	Rhineland-Palatnate
City	Hassloch (Haßloch)
Exhibits	Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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Hassloch Synagogue

Bronagh Bowerman

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

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