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The Synagogues of Europe
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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
	KATOWICE, POLAND (early 20th c.) The Great Synagogue The Great Synagogue was the largest synagogue in Katowice (Kattowitz), Poland, then Germany. It was built in 1900 and designed by Ignatz Grünfeld. The synagogue was set on fire by Nazis on 4 September 1939. From Wikipedia.
	KAZIMIERZ-DOLNY, POLAND Synagogue name unknown.
	KAZIMIERZ-DOLNY, POLAND (bef 1939) Photo of synagogue interior
	KEPNO, POLAND (2004) "The only synagogue in Kempen, Posen, Prussia (now Kepno, Poznan, Poland.)"
	KRAKOW, POLAND (2007) High Synagogue (Pol.: Synagoga Wysoka) High Synagogue is an inactive Orthodox synagogue in the Kazimierz District (the Jewish Quarter) of Krakow. It was built between 1556 and 1563. During the occupation of Poland in World War II, Nazis stripped the interior of all equipment. The ceiling and roof were destroyed. At present only the stone niche for the Aron Kodesh and the wall-paintings uncovered early in the twenty-first century by art conservation remain. Gabled-windowed top floor, synagogue ceiling and roof were renovated in 2008 as part of the ongoing repairs. from Wikipedia.
	KRAKOW, POLAND Synagoga Isaaka Founded by Kazimierza Izaak Jakubowicz, the leader of Krakow's Jewish Community in the 1640s.
	KRAKOW, POLAND Synagoga Poppera Formerly known as Synagoga Poppera. Built in 1620 by a wealthy businessman with the surname Poppera.
	KRAKOW, POLAND Synagoga Remuh Remuh Synagogue was named after Rabbi Moshe Isserles who lived in the sixteenth century (Hebrew acronym: REMA). It was built in the Kazimierz section of the city, where is where the Jews went when they were expelled from Krakow at the end of the fifteenth century.
	KRAKOW, POLAND Synagoga Tempel Built in 1862 by an association of 'advanced' Jews.
	KRASNOSIELC, POLAND This synagogue, according to documents, was built in the late 1800's to serve the towns of Krasnosielc and possibly Rozan. The street on one side was renamed Jewish Street after its construction. To save money, the second story interior, reserved for the women of the congregation, was reached by an exterior stairway. Plaques (seen in photo above on left wall) were placed on the wall of the synagogue by the Association of Former Krasnosielc Residents in Israel and USA in 1996. The plaque on the wall relates to this site of the murdered Jews on the night of Sept 5,1939. The inscription reads: "This building was the synagogue of 2000 members of the Jewish community of Krasnosielc until World War II. Here on the night of 6 IX 1939 more than 50 prominent members of the community were brutally murdered by the Nazi-Germans and their bodies buried in the adjoining yard. The remainder of the community was then driven out through acts of terror to a bitter fate."
	KWIDZYN, POLAND (once MARIENWERDER, GERMANY), cir 1930

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