"In 1875, the community built a three-story synagogue... In 1945, 2,600 Jews lived in in Reichenbach, and Konrad Springer returned the old synagogue building to the community, to be used as a synagogue once again... In 2007, a Jewish philanthropist, born in Reichenbach and now living in Israel, donated money to refurbish the synagogue and renamed it Beitenu Chai (“our house lives”)."
Moshe Finkel
Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

Notes

Sources: The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Shmuel Spector [Ed.], [publisher] Yad Vashem and the New York University Press, 2001., Lexikon der jüdischen Gemeinde in Deutschen Sprachraum, Klaus Dieter-Alicke, [publisher] Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2008. www.sztetl.org.pl

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