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From July 1941 to November 1942 in the streets: Dworna – now 22-go Lipca, Senatorska, Woziwodzka, Zielona, Żydowska – now Zatylna, and Rybaki, the Nazis set up a ghetto, where they exterminated 9,000 Poles of Jewish ethnicity. 3,500 of them were shot in the woods near the villages of Giełczyn and
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Sławiec. The German occupiers established 15 ghettos in the towns of Łomża region. The tragic fate of around 40,000 people living in them led to the extermination camp in Treblinka. May the memory of them and of those who were helping them in those terrible days last.
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It was built from 1878 to 1889 on the initiative of Rabbi Eliezer-Simcha Rabinowicz, and it was designed by Italian-Polish architect Enrico Marconi from
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for the Jews from surrounding villages and towns. Most likely the Great Synagogue was destroyed in stages, first burned down, and levelled out later.
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A memorial plaque marks the site of the former synagogue, with an inscription in Polish and Hebrew, which reads:
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The Great Synagogue was destroyed by the invading Germans either in September 1939, at the very beginning of
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style and completed in 1889, the synagogue served as a house of prayer until
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was established by the congregation, that dated from the 15th century.
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Great Synagogue, Łomża
Great Synagogue

Affiliation
Orthodox Judaism
Ecclesiastical or organisational status
Synagogue
Łomża
Podlaskie Voivodeship
Poland
Great Synagogue (Łomża) is located in Podlaskie Voivodeship
Podlaskie Voivodeship
Geographic coordinates
53°10′42″N 22°04′54″E / 53.17833°N 22.08167°E / 53.17833; 22.08167
Architect(s)
Enrico Marconi
Synagogue architecture
Style
Rundbogenstil
Materials
Orthodox
Jewish
synagogue
Łomża
Podlaskie Voivodeship
Poland
Enrico Marconi
Rundbogenstil
World War II
Nazis

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