Persecution and memorial recordsRB-EXT-CC-0010

The memorial follows the footprint of Halberstadt’s destroyed synagogue

Olaf Wegewitz’s installation marks the ground once occupied by the synagogue. Visitors walk the outline left in the city after the November pogrom and demolition. It is a modern memorial, not a surviving fragment of the sanctuary.

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RB-EXT-CC-0010
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Photographed 2017
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2000 × 1278 pixels
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Documented modern memorial
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Wikimedia Commons photograph by Gliwi.
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