Berlin Charlottenburg. Jewish Community Centre (Jüdisches Gemeindehaus Fasanenstrasse) entrance, Main Portal is a fragment of the old Jewish Synagogue
Berlin Charlottenburg. Jewish Community Centre (Jüdisches Gemeindehaus Fasanenstrasse) entrance, Main Portal is a fragment of the old Jewish Synagogue The centre is on the site of old Jewish Synagogue destroyed during WW2. A few surviving elements, such as the main portal, were kept as decoration of the new 1950s Modern style building. The Gemeindehaus was inaugurated on September 27, 1959 and is now home to the Jewish Adult Education Centre & library. There is a memorial wall in the courtyard with the names of all the concentration camps and ghettos to which approximately 58000 Jews from Berlin were deported. A 3 metre tall Chanukia is illuminated at night and a sculpture displays a Torah scroll with verse from the 4th book of Moses - "One Law and one ordinance shall be both for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you" Numbers XV 16. The courtyard also houses a memorial plaque remembering Recha Freier, the founder of the Youth Aliyah Movement in 1933. She rescued more than 7000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany.
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Location: Fasanenstraße 79-80, Berlin, Germany
Photo credit: © Eden Breitz / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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