Object record
The demolition order records how the city administered the synagogue's destruction; this photograph records the physical result of the preceding violence. Its low resolution is made explicit so that the image adds evidence without claiming detail it cannot sustain.
SeriesPersecution and memorial records
- Archive reference
- RB-PHO-0267
- Date
- 1938 or 1939; exact date not established
- Medium
- Not yet recorded in the public catalog
- Physical dimensions
- Not yet recorded in the public catalog
- Digital image
- 160 × 264 pixels
- Evidence status
- Historical aftermath photograph; low-resolution research access copy
- Uncertainty
- The exact date, photographer, original holder and inventory number have not been verified. The small file does not support detailed identification of the person or individual objects in the debris.
- Source and provenance
- Low-resolution research copy preserved in the Reichenbach Family Archive and associated with the Berend Lehmann Museum / Städtisches Museum Halberstadt historical presentation. Exact item signature pending.
- Custody history
- A separate custody history has not yet been recorded; see the source and credit fields.
- Credit
- Berend Lehmann Museum / Städtisches Museum Halberstadt source chain; exact item credit pending
- Rights
- Displayed as a source-linked low-resolution research access copy. No independent reuse rights are granted.
- Image treatment
- Complete 160 x 264 pixel research JPEG shown at its native resolution in the lightbox. It was not enlarged, cropped, restored or generatively altered.
Open the source record for Looted interior of the Halberstadt synagogue
Permanent citation
How to cite this object
Chicago-style suggested citation
Reichenbach Family Archive. “Looted interior of the Halberstadt synagogue.” 1938 or 1939; exact date not established. RB-PHO-0267. https://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-pho-0267.
Permanent URLhttps://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-pho-0267