Kaiserslautern New Synagogue

Synagogue - Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate

"Later, in 1866, a new synagogue—with 400 seats for men and 200 for women—was established on Fruehlingsstrasse...Dr. Solly Baron was rabbi, and the community ran four Jewish associations and a branch of the B’nai B’rith organization. Local Jews were forced to give up their synagogue in August 1938, after which they were permitted to establish a prayer room in a former prison. The synagogue building was demolished in September or October of 1938, and the site was used as a parade ground after 1939...In 1980, the site on which the destroyed synagogue once stood was renamed Synagogenplatz (“synagogue square”); a plaque and a memorial were unveiled there in 1980 and 2003, respectively."

Heike Zaun Goshen

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ germansynagogues.bh.org.il

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., Führer durch die Jüdische Gemeindeverwaltung und Wohlfahrtspflege in Deutschland 1923-1933, Andreas Nachama, Simon Hermann [Eds.], [publisher] Edition Hentrich, 1995. www.cad.architektur.tu-darmstadt.de www.Info-Westpfalz.de

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Date Added	May 04, 2020
Category	Synagogue
Country	DE
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
City	Kaiserslautern
Exhibits	Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany

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Kaiserslautern New Synagogue

Heike Zaun Goshen

Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ germansynagogues.bh.org.il

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