Saarlouis Synagogue

Synagogue - Saarlouis (Sarrelouis), Saarland

"1828, when the community inaugurated a synagogue, with a mikveh and an elementary school, on Silberherzstrasse (Postgaesschen)...The school was closed in 1875...and we also know that the synagogue was renovated in 1878 and again in 1915... On Pogrom Night, the five remaining Jewishowned businesses were destroyed and looted, as was the synagogue’s interior. The synagogue building—it served as a carpenter’s shop at some point—was converted into a church in 1968. In 1986, three years after the structure was demolished, a new building was erected on the site; inside, a memorial room was built in honor of the destroyed Jewish community and its former synagogue."

Heike Zaun Goshen

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

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Sources: Alemannia Judaica, www.alemannia-judaica.de , The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Shmuel Spector [Ed.], [publisher] Yad Vashem and the New York University Press, 2001., www.saarlouis.de

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Date Added	Feb 06, 2020
Category	Synagogue
Country	DE
State	Saarland
City	Saarlouis (Sarrelouis)
Exhibits	Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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Saarlouis Synagogue

Heike Zaun Goshen

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

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