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Devastation and chaos on the streets across the country the program resulted in 7 and a half 1000 jewish owned businesses ransacked 30000 jews arrested 1300 murdered or dead by their own hand. in april 939 the synagogue and iranian burger stross are reopened for passover. traces of the fire were still visible when rabbi moxness walked in. my heart was racing i wasnt just entering a desecrated house of god in the middle of a european capital i was stepping into the history of 2000 years of paul g...

The and inside the rezone did for the last time in the final service on march 30th 1940. then the synagogue was shut down. the german army moved in using the main hall as a warehouse to store their mocked uniforms. religious services were still held in secret next door. the last one took place even as outside the nazis were accelerating the deportation of jews. may 1st 1903 a special day for. 13 years old and is celebrating his bar mitzvah the jewish coming of age ritual for boys. his mother and...

By 1900 the synagogue was a lively center of jewish religious life a popular place to celebrate weddings or bar mitzvahs and drawing thousands of worshippers to services on religious holidays. or social came to admire it among them the writers. lewis carroll and mark twain. concerts were always sold out like this one on a rediscovered recording of the synagogue choir from 1932.

They come expecting to find a synagogue in the normal sense of a place of worship and wrestler action. and that isnt here anymore here there. today was its archives and library the centrum judaic im is a key research and conference center and it remains a meeting place for the jewish community. every friday religious services are held in a small prayer room for 50 worshippers with a rabbi and cantor who. once again bar mitzvahs are celebrated here as jewish boys become sons of the commencement. ...

Kristallnacht the night of broken glass when thousands of synagogues across germany were set ablaze. to mourners on his way home near the station he sees the facade inch across the synagogue and claims. the administrative director of the preacher hospital rushes back to work. his hospital is directly next to the synagogue awesome sure enough youre too modest starting a fire. to call the police and threatens to sue when the flames are comedian. and one precinct police chief. has a tape only for a...

Communist authorities demolished the main hall of the synagogue seen here in the virtual reconstruction. it was a simpler and cheaper solution than preserving the building. but was it also a political decision. and poor d.t. home had they been trying to send a political message they certainly would have demolished the front part which was so to speak jewish they didnt do that demolished the back section home this point . precisely 100 years after the synagogues consecration in september $966.00 ...

These kind of lovers and porcelain figures belonged to the iranian burger stross a synagogue. in november 943 bombs dropped in a british air raid cause severe damage not just to the dome what had been germanys largest synagogue was critically hit. 15 years later authorities of communist east germany had the main synagogue and central prayer room the very heart of the structure demolished. to this day only an outline in the void recalls the beauty last. the summer of 857 acclaimed architect ed wa...