Dr. James Newman, U.S. director for the province of Hesse, and several other American, Jewish and German personalities today attended a ceremony re-dedicating the Wiesbaden synagogue.
The synagogue was partly destroyed during the pogroms which swept Germany in Nov. 9-10 1938, and then was converted into a collection center for Jewish prisoners bound for concentration camps.
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