Hahnheim Synagogue
"[The community opened] a synagogue in 1840, the latter of which was built on the Synagogenhof, or “synagogue yard,” (later renamed Freier Platz)...One day after Pogrom Night, rioters set the synagogue building on fire; fuelled with goods and utensils looted from Jewish homes and businesses, the blaze, by the time it died out, had gutted the entire building. The synagogue’s ruins were cleared shortly after the pogrom. The cellar roof, however, which protruded one meter above ground level, remained intact, and was later used as a podium for Nazi organized public events; the cellar itself was used for storing water."
Bronagh Bowerman
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., Pinkas HaKehillot Germania/ פנקס הקהילות גרמניה (Hebrew), [published by] Yad Vashem, 1992: Hesse,Hesse-Nassau, Frankfurt , “und dies ist die Pforte des Himmels”: Synagogen Rheinland-Pfalz/Saarland, Will Schmid, Stefan Fischbach and Ingrid Westerhoff [Eds.], publication initiated by Joachim Glatz and Meier Schwarz, [publisher] Phillipp Von Zabern, 2005.
Details
| Date Added | Apr 20, 2020 |
|---|---|
| Category | Synagogue |
| Country | DE |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| City | Hahnheim |
| Exhibits | Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany |
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