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  Old Memorial to the Synagogue (Tempel) Gottschedstraße in Leipzig, Germany, 1966

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 2003


Inscriptions

In German, on the front side:

Gedenkt

Hier wurde am
9. November 1938
die grosse Synagoge
der Israelitischen
Religionsgemeinde
zu Leipzig durch
Branstiftung
faschistischer
Horden zerstört
Vergesst es nicht

Translation

In German, on the left side:

In der
 Stadt Leipzig
 fielen 14000
 Bürger
 jüdischen
 Glaubens dem
 faschistischen
 Terror
 zum Opfer

Translation

On the right side, in Hebrew:

בעיר לייפציג
נפלו לחרבן  14000 יהודים 
מטרור הפשיסתי

Translation: 

Commissioned by

municipality (?) Jewish community (?)

Summary and Remarks
Remarks

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Name/Title
Memorial to the Synagogue (Tempel) Gottschedstraße in Leipzig | Unknown
Object Detail
Date
November 18, 1966
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Artist/ Maker
Förster, Hans-Joachim (sculptor, artist, 1929–2022)
{"6289":"native of Leipzig, studied sculpture at the School of Applied Arts in Leipzig, created pieces for public spaces in Leipzig and other locations, mostly in Saxony, Germany."}
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Germany | Saxony (Sachsen) | Leipzig
| Gottschedstraße
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