The Town Council of Nymegen has dropped its plans to demolish the town’ s synagogue, one of the country’s oldest Jewish houses of worship, following the intervention of The Netherlands Minister of Culture Dr. Marga Klompe. Instead, the synagogue will be renovated at a cost of 600,000 florins ($166,140) with The Netherlands government contributing 40 percent of the cost and the Province of Gelderland 10 percent. Dr. Klompe, a Roman Catholic, looks upon the synagogue, which was built in 1727, as a monument which commemorates the Jewish community which flourished in Nymegen before World War II and the Nazi occupation of Holland.
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