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Of all the number 31 the ceremony must be brief and secret vianna and his mother have been living underground for months. 'd 'd 'd 'd the prayer book the sea do or the van or monks received for his bar mitzvah survived. it still bears the rabbi's dedication. for decades there was no knowledge of what went on next door to the synagogue then during renovation construction workers found inscriptions underneath the wallpaper in a storage room. in the autumn of 1943 the gestapo had created prison cells for $200.00 inmates in these rooms. the inscriptions had been scratched into the wall by prisoner...

Hebrew the biblical quotation. knew the gates of the righteous nation which keep it the truth by going to rain. to preserve jewish identity and foster openness that was the founders vision. isn't simply the sentiment was here in the center of berlin we have an open mind we don't just practice tolerance in the streets in the synagogue we ourselves represent this openness so it was an expression of confidence we're right in the middle of things we're part of you we are berliners he said billy not. today berlin's jewish community would also want the building to appear welcoming it's a major touri...

The exact sequence of events that night is still unknown what is clear is that as a troops ran riot in the synagogue pushing over prayer benches urinating on torah rolls smashing windows of windows infant over there the pains have all been reinstalled with legs and what's left of them and here it's glued into place. fragments of the past with tales to tell. for decades the image of the iranian synagogue in flames was emblematic of the november programme. is in fact that's not quite true many synagogues were set on fire this one here on a run in to these especially this photo here which became ...

The 17 year old jewish girl was among those interned here. a serb forced labor she was arrested in berlin in september of 1904 charges she was thrown into a small cell with $23.00 inmates decades later she described the conditions with. the cruelest of all where the s.s. women when we were brought to an interrogation we had to pass through a doorway blocked by a heavy bar madam sergeant favorite thing to do is to lift the bar and then let it crash down over us as we passed while we were nearly passing out in pain she would just sit there and laugh. if the prisoners screamed no one could hear t...

Be demolished the city of my so community leaders moved to avert that by putting up a plaque and it's not so easy to tear down a building once there's a plaque on a mission i have for pious. it was a bold move casting the synagogue as a memorial against fascism. there monday morning and conservationist robert gray fried joined efforts to restore the synagogue in the late 1970 s. for years there was debate over whether it should be rebuilt and if so. great fright couldn't believe some official suggestions. there are people in the park section of the urban planning department designing gardens f...