Chancellor Helmut Kohl has congratulated the Jewish community in Augsburg on the reopening of the synagogue there, destroyed during the notorious Kristallnacht of 1938. “Your temple may be in the diaspora but you, the members of the Jewish community, are here at home,” Kohl said in a cable. The federal state of Baden Wuertemberg and the Augsburg municipality made public funds available to rebuild and restore the synagogue. Augsburg, one of the oldest cities in Germany, is currently celebrating its 2,000th anniversary.
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