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. Beuthen Synagogue was built in 1869, in place of an older one. Dr. Felix Kopfstein, lawyer and notary, became rabbi there in... More

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  • Nov 9, 1938

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