Obj. ID: 42809
Jewish Architecture Holocaust memorial plaque in the former Higher Crumpsall Synagogue, Manchester, United Kingdom, 1960s(?)
To the main object: Higher Crumpsall Synagogue in Manchester, United Kingdom
Who is Commemorated?
Description
The wooden plaque is inscribed in Hebrew and English and decorated with Maden David and two candle bulbs.
Inscription
The plaque is inscribed in English and Hebrew.
Higher Crumpsall Hebrew Congregation
Dedicated
In sacred & everlasting
Memory of six million
Of our brethren
Who perished in the
Nazi Holocaust
1933-1945"
לזכר נשמות אחינו
שנרצחו על קדשת
השם על ידי הנצים
בארצות אירופה
ת'נ'צ'ב'ה' [=תהי נפשם צרורה בצרור החיים]
Translation: In memory of souls of our brethren / that were murdered for the sanctification / of the Name by Nazis /in the European countries / May their souls be bound in the bundle of life.
The lower part of the plaque is inscribed in English:
Presented by the Executive & Council
Commissioned by
Executive Council of Higher Crumpsall Synagogue
2 image(s)
sub-set tree:
The synagogue was built 1928 for the Higher Crumpsall Hebrew Congregation of Bury Old Road, Salford, in a then-modern Neo-classical style. The synagogue was one of the most magnificent in the Manchester area. In the late 1960's Higher Crumpsall Hebrew Congregation merged with Higher Broughton Synagogue and the building stayed in use. The congregation ended in 2017 and the building now is a part of a local yeshiva.
Kadish, Sharman. Jewish Heritage in Britain and Ireland: an Architectural Guide (London, 2015), 182-184.
"UK: Congregation of Manchester’s Higher Crumpsall Synagogue ends use; leaves building," Jewish Heritage Europe, https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2017/12/24/uk-manchesters-higher-crumpsall-synagogue-closes/ (accessed January 5, 2022)