Berlin 1st June - 4th June 2004 - Oranienburger-Straße, Neue Synagoge and the Old Jewish Cemetery


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A dilapidated building - a now rare reminder of the past
'Kol Bo' Auguststraße
 'Kol Bo' still selling matzos in June

The Neue Synagoge Oranienburger-straße
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5 September 1866 - 5 September 1966. This synagogue is 1-- years old and was set alight on Kristallnacht, 9th November 1938. During the Second World War it was completed destroyed in 1943 by allied bombing. The front elevation of this place of worship shall stand aas a warning and for a remembrance. NEVER FORGET. Executive committe of the jEwish Community of Greater Berlin

The rededication plaque on the Neue Synagoge.

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Synagogue frontage

The inscription reads:

"Open the gates so the righteous nation, keeper of the faith, may enter" (Isaiah 26.2).

  The gold dome is visible all over Berlin
Inside the dome
Small exhibition of the history of the building and its reconstruction.

The old Jewish Cemetery Große-Hamburger-Straße
On this site stood the first Old Age home of the Jewish Community in Berlin. In 1942 the Gestapo turned it into a collection point for Jewish citizens. 55,000 people, from infants to the elderly were transported to Auschwitz and Theresienstadt and brutally murdered. NEVER FORGET. REJECT WAR. PURSUE PEACE
Memorial to deportees at the entrance to the old Jewish Cemetery.

Mouse over the image for a transcript.		 Sculpture of the deportees by Will Lammert Commemorates the "collection point" installed at this spot by the Gestapo in 1942 - thereby commemorating the more than 55,000 Berlin Jews who were deported into camps and to their deaths. Originally, the Jewish old-age home was located here.

Information board in English and Hebrew. The cemetery is now a quiet park.
In memory of the oldest Burial Ground of the Berlin community which was in use from 1672 to 1827 and was completely destroyed by order of the Gestapo in 1943.
The recovered gravestone of the famous philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, founder of Haskalah Two destroyed headstones Plaque on cemetery wall.

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