1988
November 10, 1988
Berlin
In the 1980s, the Jewish community increasingly put forward the idea of building a Jewish museum on the site of the New Synagogue.
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November 09, 1988
Norderney
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the November pogrom, a commemorative plaque was placed in the “House of the Island.”
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1979
September 09, 1979
Canada
On September 9, 1979, survivors established the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center in memory of the victims and against neo-Nazism and fascism.
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February 28, 1979
Solingen
On the basis of a citizens’ petition, the Solingen-Mitte district council decided to rename Hohe Gasse as Max Leven Gasse.
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1943
October 09, 1943
USA
This important work represents Arthur Szyk's involvement in raising awareness in the United States of the Holocaust taking place in Europe.
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Greece
On March 15, 1943, the first Jews of Thessaloniki were deported. This center of Sephardic Jewry was wiped out within weeks.
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1938
November 10, 1938
Solingen
In Solingen, too, there are attacks and arrests, the synagogue is set on fire, Max Leven is shot.
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November 09, 1938
Essen
In the night of November 9, the synagogue was set on fire: wooden benches were burned, the lead frames of the beautiful stained-glass windows melted.
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November 09, 1938
Halle
During the pogrom night of November 9 to 10, 1938, the synagogue and community center in Halle were stormed, looted, and burned down.
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November 09, 1938
Cologne
As a young man, Henry Gruen (born as Heinz Grünebaum, 1923–2013), witnessed the brutal devastation and destruction of Jewish life in Cologne.
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November 09, 1938
Norderney
During the pogrom of November 1938, seven Jewish residents of the island were taken from their homes by SA men and detained for a day.
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November 09, 1938
Berlin
National Socialist and marauding groups gained access to the building and began setting fires. However, the New Synagogue did not burn out that night.
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October 10, 1938
"Landjuden an der Sieg" memorial in Windeck/Rosbach
On the night of November 9th to 10th, 1938, the Jewish house of God was set on fire by the National Socialists.
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October 10, 1938
"Landjuden an der Sieg" memorial in Windeck/Rosbach
On November 10, 1938 at seven o'clock in the morning the fire was set in the Ruppichterother synagogue.
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October 01, 1933
"Landjuden an der Sieg" memorial in Windeck/Rosbach
On April 1, 1933, the nationwide boycott of Jewish shops took place.
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September 23, 1933
Norderney
With the campaign “Norderney Judenfrei” the SA also attempted to keep Jewish spa guests and residents away from the island or to expel them.
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April 01, 1933
Solingen
Many shops and practices in Solingen were affected by the nationwide “boycott of Jewish businesses” on April 1, 1933.
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March 24, 1933
Norderney
To get rid of the “stigma” of being a “Jewish bathing resort,” after the Nazi takeover, the local authorities made attempts to keep Jews away.
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January 30, 1933
Norderney
In contrast to many health resorts and the other East Frisian islands, Jews were well accepted and integrated on the island until 1933.
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January 01, 1929
Norderney
Norderney also had several famous Jewish bathing guests, including the painter Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944).
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January 01, 1929
Halle
The Jewish community made its own contribution to modernism with the construction of a new mourninghall at the third Jewish cemetery on Boelckestrasse
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