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Below you will find a series of postcards that depict various synagogues that currently or once stood in Europe. Most of these photographs have been purchased, taken, or otherwise obtained by those visiting these towns and cities, and they have been subsequently submitted to the Museum to be placed online. Some of these synagogues might still be extant, i.e. still being used as synagogues, but others lay abandoned and perhaps in a state of disrepair, or are currently being used for other purposes. Some have been restored.

Current town names are used to indicate the location of each synagogue.

The Museum welcomes further submissions, as this exhibition is forever ongoing and evolving. Please include the name of the country, town/city, synagogue (if known), and the month and year the photo was taken.

Please click on the thumbnail photos to see the enlarged versions.

AUSTRIA	BELARUS	BELGIUM	CROATIA	CZECH REPUBLIC
FRANCE	GERMANY	GREECE	HUNGARY	ITALY
LATVIA	LITHUANIA	MOLDOVA	POLAND	ROMANIA
RUSSIA	SERBIA	SLOVAKIA	SPAIN	SWITZERLAND
TURKEY	UKRAINE

POLAND
	Andrychów, POLAND (cir 1920s)**
	BARCZEWO, POLAND (2007)**
	Bełchatów, POLAND (bef 1939)**
	Biała, POLAND (1926)**
	BIALYSTOK, POLAND (1920) The Great Synagogue The Bialystok Great Synagogue was built on Suraska Street, construction beginning in either 1909 or 1909 and ending upon its completion in 1913. The builder of the synagogue was Solomon Rabinovitch of Bialystok. The synagogue was topped by a large dome with a spire of ten meters, with two smaller symmetrical domes atop its two side halls. The Germans occupied Bialystok in June 1941. They immediately burned down portions of the Jewish neighborhood, including the Great Synagogue. On June 27,1941 the Germans locked 1,500 Jews inside the synagogue and burned them alive, the synagogue being burnt to the ground with all the people inside. A memorial plaque to the 1500 Jews who were burned alive, as well as the reconstruction of the wrecked Great Synagogue dome, was dedicated in August 1995. Photo from Wikipedia.
	BIEZUN, POLAND (bef 1958)* The synagogue in Bieżuń, Poland was built at the start of the twentieth century and was converted to a movie theater in 1958. Next to the building is the old Rabbi's House and the Beit Midrash.
	BYTOM, POLAND Bytom Synagogue was a synagogue in Beuthen, Germany (now Bytom, Poland). It was built in1869, in the place of old one. The synagogue was burnt down by Nazis during the Kristallnacht on 9–10 November 1938. From Wikipedia.
	CIECHANOW, POLAND* The synagogue at Zakroczymska Street under construction at the beginning of the twentieth century. It was destroyed by the Germans during World War II.
	CZESTOCHOWA, POLAND (bef 1944) The Old Community Synagogue was at ul. Nadrzeczna 32 in Czestochowa. The exact date of the start of the construction of the Old Synagogue (Stara Synagoga) is unknown. The building was expanded in 1872 and then renovated in 1928-29. It was ransacked by the Germans in September 1939, who then completely destroyed it during the liquidation of the Small Ghetto in 1943.
	CZESTOCHOWA, POLAND (bef 1940) The New Synagogue was at the corner of ul. Wilsona and ul. Garabaldiego in Czestochowa. It was completed in 1893 and burned by the Germans on December 25, 1939. In 1955 the Czestochowa City Council decided to build a philharmonic hall on the ruins of the New Synagogue.
	Gdańsk, POLAND (beg. 20th c.) The Great Synagogue The great synagogue of Danzig (now Gdansk in Poland) destroyed by the Nazis in 1939. From Wikipedia.
	Jasło, POLAND (bef World War II) The Great Synagogue Built in 1905, was an Orthodox Jewish synagogue.. It was destroyed by the Nazis during World War II. From Wikipedia.
	JEDWABNE, POLAND (bef 1913)* The synagogue in Jedwabne was probably built circa 1771. It was destroyed by fire in 1913.
	Józefów (LUBELSKI), POLAND Synagogue is now used as a local library. The design of a menorah still appears within a synagogue window.

*--Photo edited in 2002 by Wydawnictwo Mazowieckie, Przasnysz and prepared by Mariusz Bondarczuk and Artur K.F. Wolosz.
**-- From Wikipedia.