Ludwigshafen Am Rhein Synagogue

Synagogue - Ludwigshafen Am Rhein (לודוויגסהאפן), Rhineland-Palatinate

"In 1863/1864, the community purchased a former church on Kaiser Wilhelm Strasse and turned it into a synagogue. The inauguration ceremony took place in May 1865. The synagogue was renovated numerous times, the last of which was in 1909...On Pogrom Night, November 1938, SS troops entered the Ludwigshafen synagogue and confiscated its ritual items. They set the synagogue on fire, along with the adjacent community hall...The synagogue site was sold that year...After World War II, the synagogue site was returned to the official Jewish community of Rhineland Pfalz, which sold the building to a publishing house. A memorial plaque was affixed in 1973."

Heidemarie Wawrzyn

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ germansynagogues.bh.org.il

Notes

Sources: Alemannia Judaica, www.alemannia-judaica.de Feuer in dein Heiligtum gelegt: Zerstörte Synagogen 1938 Nordrhein-Westfalen, Michael Brooke [Ed.], Meier Schwarz [foreword], [publisher] Kamp, 1999., Synagogen Internet Archiv, www.synagogen.info www.ludwigshafen-setzt-stolpersteine.de/

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Date Added	May 05, 2020
Category	Synagogue
Country	DE
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
City	Ludwigshafen Am Rhein (לודוויגסהאפן)
Exhibits	Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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Ludwigshafen Am Rhein Synagogue

Heidemarie Wawrzyn

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ germansynagogues.bh.org.il

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