Vechta Synagogue

"We know for certain, however, that in 1825 the Jewish community acquired a synagogue building—which also housed a school and an apartment for the teacher—on Klingenhagen (later, Juttastrasse)... Later, in 1935, the synagogue building was remodeled to provide a residence for a Jewish family by the name of Marx. When the SA broke into the synagogue on Pogrom Night, they not only smashed the windows, but also destroyed and plundered both the synagogue and the Marx residence, after which they burned everything at the new market place (Neumarkt)... In 1939, at which point only nine Jews lived in Vechta, the community sold the synagogue to private buyers...in 1981 a memorial stone was unveiled not far from the former synagogue building. "

Esther Sarah Evans

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

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.geschichtsatlas.de/~gb21/Projekt/Juden/juden-end.htm

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

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Vechta Synagogue

Esther Sarah Evans

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

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