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Synagogue in Krzepice
Object Detail

Building Date
1814-1815

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Poland | Śląskie Voivodeship | Krzepice
| 1 Wenecka St. (frm. village Kuźniczka)

Style
Unknown|

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

During WWII around the synagogue there was a Jewish camp established by the Germans.


Condition

Present Usage
Abandoned

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

During WWII around the synagogue there was a concentration camp for Jews established by the Nazis.


Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance

Significance Rating
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
C (Poor)

Bibliography

Bergman, Eleonora and Jan Jagelski, Zachowane synagogi i domy modlitwy w Polsce. Katalog. (Warsaw, 1996), p. 73 with ill.;

Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 416-7 with ills.;

Przemysław Burchard, Pamiątki i zabytki kultury Żydowskiej w Polsce (Warszawa, 1990), p. 133; Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia (Moscow), vol. 5 - 2004, p. 254

https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2020/10/02/poland-restoration-krzepice/


Short Name
Full Name
Volume
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Biography

Photograph Date
2017

Remarks

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