Meschede Synagogue

Synagogue - Meschede, North Rhine-Westphalia

"In 1879, when the community inaugurated a synagogue on Kampstrasse; the site also accommodated a schoolroom, a caretaker’s apartment and lodgings for the chazzan/teacher...Jewish schoolchildren received religious instruction, and a Christian woman was employed as the synagogue’s caretaker. On the morning after Pogrom Night, SS men set Torah scrolls on fire and broke the synagogue’s windows and furniture; members of the SA destroyed a stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments...The synagogue was sold five days after the pogrom, and was converted into a carpenter’s shop in 1940...Damaged during an air raid in 1945, the synagogue building was renovated after the war. A memorial stone commemorates the destroyed house of worship."

Heidemarie Wawrzyn

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., Führer durch die Jüdische Gemeindeverwaltung und Wohlfahrtspflege in Deutschland 1923-1933, Andreas Nachama, Simon Hermann [Eds.], [publisher] Edition Hentrich, 1995., Feuer in dein Heiligtum gelegt: Zerstörte Synagogen 1938 Nordrhein-Westfalen, Michael Brooke [Ed.], Meier Schwarz [foreword], [publisher] Kamp, 1999., Bedenke vor wem du stehst: 300 Synagogen und ihre Geschichte in Westfalen und Lippe, Günter Birkmann and Harmut Stratmann, [publisher] Klartext Verlag, 1998., Synagogen Internet Archiv, www.synagogen.info , W-G, Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Entrance

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Date Added	Mar 16, 2020
Category	Synagogue
Country	DE
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
City	Meschede
Exhibits	Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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Meschede Synagogue

Heidemarie Wawrzyn

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

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