I went to Lucenec for a week to help the interns promote camp. While we were there I noticed this really old run down building...I love the history on this side of the world. INCREDIBLE!
This building numbers among just four synagogues built by Hungarian architect Lipot Baumhorn (1860-1932), whose other structures grace Amsterdam, Brussels and Tel Aviv.
Built in 1924-1925, Baumhorn's synagogue housed religious services until 1944, when the Jews of Lucenec were transported to Nazi concentration camps in Poland and Germany.
Only 80 to 100 of the town's 2,200 Jews survived World War II.
In 1948, the synagogue's fate was sealed when Czechoslovakia's Communist authorities took the synagogue into state hands and used it to store artificial fertilizers, whose corrosive chemicals destroyed the walls.
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Well, I guess that explains why the wall broke away so easily before disintergrating in Sarah's hand. What a shame.
Garrett
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