A new, two-volume English-language work documents the more than 1,300 synagogues and prayer houses destroyed on Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom the night of November 9, 1938. The print edition, Pogrom Night 1938 – A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany, will have limited distribution, but much of the work is also presented online at the website germansynagogues.com, which has a searchable database of towns and cities where synagogues were destroyed. (For synagogues in places that are now in Poland, you need to search with the pre-war German name of the town.)
Professor Meir Schwarz of Jerusalem, who heads Beit Ashkenaz and the Synagogue Memorial Project, led the project, which took more than ten years to research, compile, and publish. Funding was organized in part via the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations.
The printed volumes were presented at a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol building at the end of April.
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Is it possible to acquire a copy of Pogrom Night 1938 – A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany? If so, what arrangements would need to be made?