In the 1980s, the Jewish community increasingly put forward the idea of building a Jewish museum on the site of the New Synagogue.
MoreOn the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the November pogrom, a commemorative plaque was placed in the “House of the Island.”
MoreOn September 9, 1979, survivors established the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center in memory of the victims and against neo-Nazism and fascism.
MoreOn the basis of a citizens’ petition, the Solingen-Mitte district council decided to rename Hohe Gasse as Max Leven Gasse.
MoreThis important work represents Arthur Szyk's involvement in raising awareness in the United States of the Holocaust taking place in Europe.
MoreOn March 15, 1943, the first Jews of Thessaloniki were deported. This center of Sephardic Jewry was wiped out within weeks.
MoreIn Solingen, too, there are attacks and arrests, the synagogue is set on fire, Max Leven is shot.
MoreIn 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.
MoreDuring the pogrom night of November 9 to 10, 1938, the synagogue and community center in Halle were stormed, looted, and burned down.
MoreAs a young man, Henry Gruen (born as Heinz Grünebaum, 1923–2013), witnessed the brutal devastation and destruction of Jewish life in Cologne.
MoreDuring the pogrom of November 1938, seven Jewish residents of the island were taken from their homes by SA men and detained for a day.
MoreNational Socialist and marauding groups gained access to the building and began setting fires. However, the New Synagogue did not burn out that night.
MoreOn the night of November 9th to 10th, 1938, the Jewish house of God was set on fire by the National Socialists.
MoreOn November 10, 1938 at seven o'clock in the morning the fire was set in the Ruppichterother synagogue.
MoreOn April 1, 1933, the nationwide boycott of Jewish shops took place.
MoreWith the campaign “Norderney Judenfrei” the SA also attempted to keep Jewish spa guests and residents away from the island or to expel them.
MoreMany shops and practices in Solingen were affected by the nationwide “boycott of Jewish businesses” on April 1, 1933.
MoreTo get rid of the “stigma” of being a “Jewish bathing resort,” after the Nazi takeover, the local authorities made attempts to keep Jews away.
MoreIn contrast to many health resorts and the other East Frisian islands, Jews were well accepted and integrated on the island until 1933.
MoreNorderney also had several famous Jewish bathing guests, including the painter Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944).
MoreThe 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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