Gross-Freden New Synagogue

Synagogue - Gross-Freden, Lower Saxony

"In 1858, an older prayer room was replaced by a synagogue—with 50 seats—on Ostenbergstrasse... In March 1938, the synagogue was sold to an undisclosed buyer...On Pogrom Night...members of the SA threw a burning bale of straw into the former synagogue, but the new owner intervened and prevented the destruction of his property... Gross Freden’s former synagogue was remodeled into a residential building in 1940."
Heike Zaun Goshen
Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

Notes

Sources: Ashkenaz House, www.ashkenazhouse.org/synagogue-main.htm Zentral Archiv zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland, Heidelberg University at: www.zentralarchiv.uni-hd.de Historisches Handbuch der jüdischen Gemeinden in Niedersachsen und Bremen, Herbert Obenhaus, David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel [Eds.], [publisher] Wallstein Verlag, 2005.1 www.freden.de/uploads/media/Chronik_der_Samtgemeinde_Freden__L._.pdf

Details

Date Added Jan 27, 2020
Category Synagogue
Country DE
State Lower Saxony
City Gross-Freden
Exhibits Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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