The local government office for indemnification of victims of Nazism announced today that it has appropriated funds for construction of a synagogue. The house of worship will replace the synagogue destroyed here by the Nazi’s during the infamous “Crystal Night” in November, 1938. Bremen’s Jewish population is approximately 150. There were 1, 600 Jews living in this city when the Nazi regime came into power.
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