"[The community established] a new synagogue at 15 Affengasse... By 1935, however, the community could no longer function due to a lack of feepaying members. On Pogrom Night, SA men from outside Kirchberg, aided by local residents, destroyed the synagogue’s interior and burned its furniture in the market square...The synagogue building (it had been renovated in 1957) was pulled down in 1972 to make room for a new building."
Nurit Borut
Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ germansynagogues.bh.org.il

Notes

Sources: Chronik der Verbandsgemeinde Kirchberg im Hunsrueck 1789-1983, Carla Regge, [published] Charivari Verlag, 1983., 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.

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