Neue Synagoge Berlin-Centrum Judaicum collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn2666
• English
• 1866
• overall: Height: 15.625 inches (39.688 cm) | Width: 29.500 inches (74.93 cm) | Depth: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Decorative block from the southern facade of the 1866 Neue Synagoge [New Synagogue] in Berlin. It was used as a model to cast additional handformed ceramic construction pieces in the Grossraeschen (Sachsen) brick factory during a rebuilding of the facade in 1988. Originally named the Oranienburger Strasse Synagogue, it had seating for 3000 and was the largest in Germany. It was damaged by rioters during the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938, but was still used by the dwindling Jewish community of Berlin under Nazi rule. In 1940, the German Army seized the building to use as a ware...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn2667
• English
• 1988
• overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Depth: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Cast of a decorative block from the southern facade of the 1866 Neue Synagoge [New Synagogue] in Berlin. It was made in the Grossraeschen (Sachsen) brick factory during a rebuilding of the facade in 1988, when approximately 5000 similar handformed ceramic construction pieces were created. Originally named the Oranienburger Strasse Synagogue, it had seating for 3,000 and was the largest in Germany. It was damaged by rioters during the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938, but was still used by the dwindling Jewish community of Berlin under Nazi rule. In 1940, the German Army seized th...