"Other communal institutions included the following: a synagogue, built on a small square on Vielserstrasse in 1925;...Local Jews established a school inside the synagogue building at some point after 1859... The synagogue was vandalized on Pogrom Night and burned down the following day...On May 8, 1939, the government appropriated the former synagogue plot and converted it into a park and storage yard."
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., 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., Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Entrance www.heimatverein-salzkotten.de

Details

Date Added Mar 23, 2020
Category Synagogue
Country DE
State North Rhine-Westphalia
City Salzkotten
Exhibits Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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