The Bytom Synagogue, then in Beuthen, Germany, was destroyed during Kristallnacht in November 1938. The 2010 opening stated that "on November 7, 1938 Goebbels delivered a fiery anti-Semitic tirade in Beuthen with a call for vengeance against Jews," two days before the synagogue burned. The opening today says only that the synagogue "was destroyed by Nazis on November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht," though the word survives twice in the body. A reader today learns the synagogue was destroyed during Kristallnacht but not that Goebbels had personally called for vengeance against Jews in that town two days earlier.
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Bytom Synagogue Bytom Synagogue or Beuthen Synagogue was a synagogue in Beuthen, Prussian Silesia (now Bytom , Poland ), a border–town between Germany and Second Polish Republic prior to German invasion of Poland in World War II . Since the plebiscite of 1922 the border passed just east of Beuthen, so that neighboring Katowice were in Poland.1Beuthen Synagogue was built in 1869, in place of an older one. Felix Kopfstein, lawyer and notary, became rabbi there in 1889. The synagogue was burned down by Nazi Germans during the Kristallnacht on 9–10 November 1938. On November 7, 1938 Goebbels delivered a fiery anti-Semitic tirade in Beuthen with a call for vengeance against Jews. They were made to stand for hours in front of their burning Moorish synagogue. Beuthen Jewish Community became the first ever Holocaust transport to be gassed inside "Bunker I" at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp , all murdered on February 15, 1942 at the onset of the Nazi German Holocaust in Poland .2
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Beuthen Synagogue about 1904 Bytom Synagogue or Beuthen Synagogue was a synagogue in Beuthen, in the Prussian Province of Silesia (present-day Bytom , Poland ), a border–town between Germany and the Second Polish Republic prior to German invasion of Poland in World War II . Since the plebiscite of 1922 the border passed just east of Beuthen, so that neighboring Katowice were in Poland.
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Beuthen Synagogue about 1904 Bytom Synagogue or Beuthen Synagogue was a synagogue in Beuthen, in the Prussian Province of Silesia (present-day Bytom , Poland ), a border–town between Germany and the Second Polish Republic prior to German invasion of Poland in World War II . After the plebiscite of 1922 , the border passed just east of Beuthen, so that neighboring Katowice was in Poland.
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Beuthen Synagogue about 1904 50°20′52″N 18°55′30″E  /  50.347759°N 18.924964°E  / 50.347759; 18.924964 Bytom Synagogue or Beuthen Synagogue was a synagogue in Beuthen, in the Prussian Province of Silesia (present-day Bytom , Poland ), a border–town between Germany and the Second Polish Republic prior to German invasion of Poland in World War II . After the plebiscite of 1922 , the border passed just east of Beuthen, so that neighboring Katowice was in Poland.
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Former Reform synagogue in Breslau, Germany The Bytom Synagogue or Beuthen Synagogue was a former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue , located in Beuthen, in the Prussian Province of Silesia . The town is now located in present-day Bytom , Poland , a border–town between Germany and the Second Polish Republic prior to German invasion of Poland in World War II . After the plebiscite of 1922 , the border passed just east of Beuthen, so that neighboring Katowice was in Poland. Built in 1869, the synagogue was destroyed by Nazis on November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht .
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synagogue in beuthen
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