The West Berlin City Government will build a Jewish cultural center at 38 Fasanen Street, site of one of Germany’s most famous pre-Hitler synagogues, Joachim Lipschitz, West Berlin Minister of the Interior, disclosed here today.
The Berlin official, here on a visit, addressed a luncheon in his honor tendered at the Jerusalem municipality. The Fasanenstrasse Synagogue, which was served by many noted Reform rabbis, including the late Dr. Leo Baeck and Rabbi Joachim Prinz, now a Newark rabbi and vice-president of the American Jewish Congress, was one of the synagogues destroyed during the November 9-10, 1938 pogroms. The shell, which has been standing since that night, will be razed to make room for the new center to serve the 7,000 Jews of West Berlin.
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