Boehl-Iggelheim Synagogue
"...[W]e do know that in December 1840, a new synagogue was established at 43 Schulstrasse, in Boehl. Damaged by fire in 1906, the building was subsequently renovated. Although the Schulstrasse synagogue was rarely used after 1914—services, in fact, were held there mainly on Jewish holidays—the structure was nevertheless renovated in 1920...On Pogrom Night, SA men and members of the Nazi party, accompanied by local residents, systematically destroyed the synagogue’s interior, Torah scrolls, windows, doors and roof tiles. The synagogue also housed an apartment, and although non-Jews were living there on Pogrom Night, it, too, was destroyed. Later, in 1940, the village authorities appropriated the synagogue building, after which it was demolished... On November 28, 1971, a memorial plaque was unveiled at the former synagogue site in Boehl."
Maren Cohen
Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com
Notes
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.
Details
| Date Added | Apr 20, 2020 |
|---|---|
| Category | Synagogue |
| Country | DE |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| City | Boehl-Iggelheim (Böhl-Iggelheim) |
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