Varel Synagogue

"Later, on July 28, 1848, the community inaugurated a synagogue on Osterstrasse; the building, which had been acquired in 1840, housed an elementary school, an apartment for the teacher and a mikveh...on Pogrom Night (November 1938), when SA troops set the synagogue on fire and plundered the remaining Jewish homes...The synagogue site was acquired by a local resident in May 1939...In 1990, a memorial plaque was unveiled at the public school opposite the plot where the synagogue once stood."

Esther Sarah Evans

Notes

Sources: Historisches Handbuch der jüdischen Gemeinden in Niedersachsen und Bremen, Herbert Obenhaus, David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel [Eds.], [publisher] Wallstein Verlag, 2005.1, Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Entrance www.bethhahayim.info/varel.htm

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Date Added	Feb 03, 2020
Category	Synagogue
Country	DE
State	Lower Saxony
City	Varel
Exhibits	Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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Varel Synagogue

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