Leipzig - 4 Berliner Strasse, the Kolomea Synagogue
Summary: The Kolomea Synagogue, founded in 1904, was comprised
mainly of middle class, Eastern European Jews whose families
had originally immigrated to Leipzig from Poland. Samuel
Krauthammer, the synagogue’s founder and benefactor,
named it Kolomea after the city in Poland from which his
family hailed.
This Orthodox congregation initially met for prayers in
a small house on Gerberstrasse and, later, in a house on
Krauthammer, where services were held until 1931. That
year, the congregation built a synagogue on Berliner Strasse
with a seating capacity of approximately 100, making it
the fourth-largest synagogue in Leipzig. The inauguration
ceremony was attended by two other Orthodox rabbis from
Leipzig: Rabbi Carlebach of the Brodyer Synagogue and
Rabbi Feldman of the Ahavath Torah Synagogue. Nazis plundered the Kolomea Synagogue on Pogrom
Night (November 1938); the building was later destroyed
during a wartime bombing raid.
Author / Sources: Moshe Finkel
Sources:
www.juden-in-sachsen.de
Sources:
www.juden-in-sachsen.de
Located in: saxony