"A new house of worship was inaugurated at 1 Tanzbergstrasse/Untere Austrasse; the grand Duke of Baden facilitated the process by providing the community with a grant...Later, on Pogrom Night, the synagogue’s interior was destroyed and the Torah scrolls were burned in public...In 1939, the municipality appropriated the synagogue. The building was used as a youth club after World War II and later for agricultural purposes. A memorial plaque was unveiled there in 2005."
Yehoshua Ahrens
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., Synagogen in Baden-Wuerttemberg: Teilband 2, Orte und Einrichtungen, Joachim Hahn and Juergen Krueger [Eds.]: publication initiated by Ruediger Schmidt, the Badische Landesbibliotheke in Karlsruhe and Meier Schwarz, [publisher] Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH, 2007.

Details

Date Added Apr 30, 2020
Category Synagogue
Country DE
State Baden-Wuerttemberg
City Adelsheim
Exhibits Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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