New Orthodox Synagogue (Košice)

The synagogue was designed by the Budapest-educated architect Ľudovít Oelschläger. The facade uses both neo-classical and local traditional motifs; and example of the latter is the attic storey in a style often found in renaissance buildings of Eastern Slovakia. The interior, largely constructed in concrete, is in the modernist with a domed central hall and a women's gallery with a metal mechitzah. The central bimah faces a Torah ark made of red marble. A school was built adjoining the synagogue and a mikveh (ritual bath) was planned but not constructed.[2]

Transports of Jews from Kosice to Nazi camps were carried out during World War II. A bronze Holocaust memorial plate was installed on the front of the synagogue in 1992. It informs that more than 12,000 Jews of Košice were taken to concentration camps in 1944. It does not mention that more than 2,000 Jews from Košice's surroundings were concentrated here and then also sent to the concentration camps. Only 400 of all transported Jews survived.

• History of the Jews in Slovakia

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  Orthodox synagogue
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  Orthodox synagogue
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  The Holocaust memorial plate
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  Orthodox synagogue
  in Košice (detail)

Notes

Sources

• Borský, Maroš (2007).Synagogue Architecture in Slovakia: A Memorial Landscape of a Lost Community. Bratislava: Jewish Heritage foundation. ISBN 9788096972005.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Orthodox synagogue in Košice.

• Official website
• Synagogues of Kosice, Synagoga Slovaca.
• Ethel Flam (nee Frankfurter) Kosice survivor testimony – video, telling of the roundup in the synagogue yard.

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