Jewish Brno outside the city walls

Looks like a factory

The great advantage of this synagogue after the occupation was the fact that it certainly does not look like a Jewish house of prayer and thus it escaped the pogromist rampage. Like the New Synagogue in Brno, it was later used as a warehouse for stolen Jewish property.

The following photographs from the Yad vashem archive show how the synagogue looked during the occupation and shortly after the liberation.


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