Vicktoriaplatz Synagogue

Synagogue - Muelheim an der Ruhr (Mülheim an der Ruhr), North Rhine-Westphalia

"In order to accommodate the growing congregation...the community consecrated a new synagogue (on Viktoriaplatz) on August 2, 1907; the neo-Romantic building accommodated 300 men, 250 women (separate entrances were used), a mikveh, several assembly rooms and a smaller synagogue for weekday services...The synagogue was sold four weeks before Pogrom Night, for the community was unable to continue its maintenance. On Pogrom Night, the synagogue’s interior—including its furniture, books and Torah scrolls—was destroyed, as were Jewish-owned stores and homes. Muelheim’s fire brigade burned down the synagogue building the following morning...Viktoriaplatz was later renamed “Former Synagogue Square.”"

Ruth Martina Trucks

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., 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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Date Added	Mar 16, 2020
Category	Synagogue
Country	DE
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
City	Muelheim an der Ruhr (Mülheim an der Ruhr)
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Vicktoriaplatz Synagogue

Ruth Martina Trucks

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

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