Verden an der Aller Synagogue

"Jewish community inaugurated its first synagogue at 7 Johanniswall; the building also housed a school and a mikveh... Later, on Pogrom Night...at approximately five o’clock in the morning, SA men, most likely from the Etelsen Fuehrer School, ransacked the synagogue and set it on fire...In 1966, in memory of the former synagogue, a memorial plaque was affixed to the Johanniswall;"
Esther Sarah Evans
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., Historisches Handbuch der jüdischen Gemeinden in Niedersachsen und Bremen, Herbert Obenhaus, David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel [Eds.], [publisher] Wallstein Verlag, 2005.1, Lexikon der jüdischen Gemeinde in Deutschen Sprachraum, Klaus Dieter-Alicke, [publisher] Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2008., Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Entrance

Details

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

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