"A synagogue [was] built on the school’s premises, in 1810...On Pogrom Night, the synagogue ...[was] burned down;...in 1944, the state appropriated the synagogue site...the re-established Jewish community was compensated for the loss of the synagogue."
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 Historisches Handbuch der jüdischen Gemeinden in Niedersachsen und Bremen, Herbert Obenhaus, David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel [Eds.], [publisher] Wallstein Verlag, 2005.1 www.geschichtsatlas.de/~ge2/Die%20Synagoge/index.htm

Details

Date Added Jan 30, 2020
Category Synagogue
Country DE
State Lower Saxony
City Seesen
Exhibits Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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