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Johanna Neumann was 8 when she witnessed the 1938 Kristallnacht attack on Hamburg’s Bornplatz Synagogue. The windows shattered and Torahs lay burning in the street.
Now, plans to rebuild the synagogue are dividing Germans: is it a symbol of Jewish revival or painful erasure of #history?
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Kristallnacht’s legacy still haunts Hamburg − even as the city rebuilds a former synagogue burned in the Nazi pogrom
Questions about how to represent German Jews, past and present, have complicated plans to rebuild the destroyed temple.The Conversation