New Synagogue


One of three synagogues in Königsberg, the 1896 New Synagogue was destroyed in the aftermath of the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938. It was rebuilt, largely faithful to the original design, in 2018, to serve Kaliningrad's 2000-member-strong Jewish community.


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