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German Synagogues

See also Synagogues destroyed during Kristallnacht
 
The Nazi persecution of the Jews culminated in the Holocaust, in which approximately 6 million European Jews were deported and murdered during the Second World War. On May 19, 1943, Germany was declared judenrein (clean of Jews; also judenfrei: free of Jews). It is believed that between 170,000 and 200,000 German Jews were killed. Many Jews were shielded from the labour camps by other German traders, unsympathetic to the Nazis and their policies.

Approximately 150,000 German Jews had served in the German Wehrmacht, including decorated veterans and high-ranking officers, even generals and admirals. A great many of these men did not even consider themselves Jewish and had embraced the military as a way of life and as devoted patriots eager to serve a revived German nation. In turn, they had been embraced by the Wehrmacht, which prior to Hitler had given little thought to the race of these men but which was now forced to look deeply into the ancestry of its soldiers.
 
Following with special thanks to www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
 
 

Synagogues of the World

Germany


Jebenhausen Synagogue, built in 1804, closed in 1900 and was torn down in 1905.


The Tables of the Covenant which adorned the Torah shrine in the Jebenhausen Synagogue are preserved in the city museum of Goeppingen


The cattle dealer and innkeeper Simon Faist Rosenheim and his wife donated this Torah curtain for the Jebenhausen Synagogue in 1804


The ark (top) and bimah (bottom) of the Orthodox synagogue in Darmstadt, in the south of Germany.


A rendering of the "New Synagogue," in Frankfurt, Germany.


The Judengasse Synagogue in Frankfurt's Jewish ghetto, around 1880.

Synagogue in Frankfurt

The Oranienbergerstrasse Synagogue in Berlin. The largest synagogue in the world when completed in 1866.


The Oranienbergerstrasse Synagogue was saved from major damage during Kristallnacht in 1938
by a brave German fire chief who would not allow Stormtroopers to enter the building.
The synagogue was later destroyed by British bombing in 1943.
Recently renovated, its main sanctuary now houses a museum of Jewish history.

Pestalozzistrasse Synagogue in Berlin

Rykestrasse Synagogue in Berlin

Friedenstempel Markgraf-Albrecht-Strasse Synagogue in Berlin

Muenchenerstrasse Synagogue in Berlin

Fasanenstrasse Synagogue in Berlin

Levetzowstrasse Synagogue in Berlin

Prinzregentstrasse Synagogue in Berlin

Heide-Reuter-Gasse Synagogue in Berlin

Kottbusser Ufer Synagogue in Berlin

Synagogue in Siegen

Synagogue in Siegen being burned during World War II

Synagogue in Munich

Synagogue in Hildesheim

Synagogue in Nuremberg

Synagogue in Aachen

Synagogue in Cologne

Synagogue in Horde

Synagogue in Dessau

Synagogue in Bamberg

Synagogue in Wiesbaden

Synagogue in Kaiserlatern

Synagogue in Euskirchen

Synagogue in Detmold

Synagogue in Bielefeld

Synagogue in Worms

Synagogue in Thionville

Synagogue in Bonn

Synagogue in Landau

Synagogue in Goppingen

Synagogue in Dortmund

Synagogue in Bruchsal

Synagogue in Luneburg

Synagogue in Gross Gerau

Synagogue in Dresden

Synagogue in Dusseldorf

Synagogue in Hamburg

Synagogue in Paderborn

Synagogue in Mainz

Synagogue in Pforzheim

Synagogue in Mulheim

Synagogue in Heibronn

Synagogue in Chemnitz

Synagogue in Essen

View of the interior of the synagogue in Rastenburg.

View of the sanctuary of the synagogue in Elsdorf, Germany

Synagogue in Delmenhorst

Synagogue in Bechhofen

Aschaffenburg Synagogue

Exterior view of the Buttenwiesen Synagogue

Fraenkelufer Synagogue

Interior of Fraenkelufer Synagogue

Heidelberg Synagogue

Interior of Heidelberg Synagogue

Mannheim Synagogue

Interior of Mannheim Synagogue

To learn about the history of the German Jewish community, click here.

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Sources:
Frankfurt synagogues courtesy of www.AltFrankfurt.com
Jebenhausen - A Jewish Community in Wuerttemberg
New Synagogue photo courtesy of David Navarro.
Darmstadt photos courtesy of Brian Large
Postcard and stamp photos courtesy of Judaica Philatelic Resources
Fraenkelufer Synagogue, Heidelberg synagogue, and Mannheim synagogue photos courtesy of HaChayim HaYehudim Jewish Photo Library (Jono David Media)

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

 

Map showing the distribution of Jews in the German Empire in the 1890s
 

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