Grunewald Synagogue

Greetings from the Franzensbader Garten. Grunewald Colony—L. Thurow. Arthur Redecker, Berlin S. 59, Hasenheide 68. Posted on 19 August 1912.

For decades, the Jewish residents of Grunewald—part leafy suburb, part nature spot attracting substantial numbers of citizens from much less leafy quarters—lamented how far they had to travel to the synagogues in the city centre. The Grunewald Synagogue was finally inaugurated, in 1923, in the premises of a gastronomic establishment created in the 1890s to cater for the many visitors, the Franzensbader Garten. Bruno Neubauer and Oskar Neubauer(1875–1942) refurbished the interior but left the exterior essentially unchanged. Set alight during the November Pogrom of 1938, the building was demolished in 1941. Oskar Neubauer, his wifeMargot, née Hinzelmann (1891–1942), and their son Joachim (b.1926) were deported to the ghetto in Łódź on 29 October 1941. The couple perished in the ghetto. Their son was deported, on 4 May 1942, to the Chełmno death camp and murdered.

Postcard from the book: Jews in Old Postcards and Prints