"Lippstadt Jews conducted services in prayer halls, all of which were located in private residences, until July 30, 1852, when a synagogue was inaugurated at 7, Stiftstrasse; the building also accommodated an elementary school.... Later, on Pogrom Night (November 1938), the synagogue was incinerated,... In 1953, the synagogue plot was signed over to the Jewish Trust Corporation, which sold the site in 1954. A memorial plaque was later unveiled at the site, now a historical monument."
Benjamin Rosendahl
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., Lexikon der jüdischen Gemeinde in Deutschen Sprachraum, Klaus Dieter-Alicke, [publisher] Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2008., Feuer in dein Heiligtum gelegt: Zerstörte Synagogen 1938 Nordrhein-Westfalen, Michael Brooke [Ed.], Meier Schwarz [foreword], [publisher] Kamp, 1999.

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