"In 1832, a new synagogue was built at 17-19 Hauptstrasse. With 240 seats for men and 170 for women, it was the largest synagogue in the Palatinate region... On Pogrom Night, the synagogue and all its contents— including 20 Torah scrolls and numerous ritual objects— were burned. Most of the town’s remaining Jews left after the pogrom... The synagogue’s ruins, damaged by artillery fire during the war, were eventually cleared, after which, in 1951, the plot was sold to a private buyer. A commemorative plaque was unveiled in Ingenheim in 1986. "
Maren Cohen and Nurit Borut
Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ germansynagogues.bh.org.il

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.

Details

Date Added May 04, 2020
Category Synagogue
Country DE
State Rhineland-Palatinate
City Ingenheim
Exhibits Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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