Synagogue Gemen (Borken)

Synagogue in Gemen

The synagogue in Gemen , a district of Borken in the Borken district in North Rhine-Westphalia , was built in 1912. The synagogue was on Ahauser Strasse.

description

The synagogue had a roofed entrance area, which was flanked by two protruding round towers. In these stairways led to the women's gallery . The towers were each crowned by a Star of David . The tablets of the law were placed on the top of the gable of the synagogue .

time of the nationalsocialism

During the November pogroms in 1938 , the synagogue was burned down by the National Socialists from Gemen. Months later the ruin was torn down.

Commemoration

Since 1988 a memorial stone has been commemorating the Jewish community with the inscription: “We let it happen and did not consider the consequences. Did we learn from it? At this point, the synagogue of the Jewish community was destroyed by arson on November 9/10, 1938. The city of Borken commemorates its Jewish fellow citizens who became victims of the National Socialist tyranny through emigration and displacement, deportation and murder. "

See also

• List of synagogues destroyed in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online version ).

Web links

• Photos of the synagogue (accessed January 28, 2016)
• Mechtild Schöneberg, Thomas Ridder, Norbert Fasse: The Jewish communities in Borken and Gemen. History, self-organization, evidence of persecution . Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-89534-704-7 ( here table of contents , not evaluated)