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Synagoga Chewra Lomdei Misznajot Oświęcim

The Lomdei Mishnayot Synagogue in Oświęcim

Prostokątny pulpit, przykryty obrusem bordowym. Na nim kilka przedmiotów związanych z religią żydowską. Wokół pulpitu na około drewniane balustrady. Na wprost fragment szafy ołtarzowej, po jej lewej  stronie, zawieszone białe płótno a po prawej pulpit z obrusem bordowym i książką na nim.

Pl. Ks. J. Skarbka 5, 32-600 Oświęcim Tourist region: Oświęcim i okolice

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The synagogue was built at the beginning of the 20th century as a place of prayer for members of the religious brotherhood studying the Talmud - Chevra Lomdei Mishnayot. During the war, it served as a warehouse and was later devastated. In the post-war period, it served as a liturgical place for a small group of Jews from Oświęcim. It was then converted into a warehouse again. The interior of the active synagogue contains interesting wooden furnishings in the form of a bimah and an aron ha-kodesh, as well as two historical tablets with Hebrew inscriptions.

The Chevra Lomdei Mishnayot Synagogue (Hebrew for Association of Mishnah Students) is the only Jewish house of prayer in Oświęcim that was not destroyed during World War II. Its construction began around 1913, and it served its function until 1939. During the war, its interior was destroyed, and the building was used as a German munitions warehouse. After World War II, a group of Oświęcim Jews who survived the Holocaust restored its original function, but after a few years, they left Oświęcim and Poland, and the building was left unused. In the 1970s, the communist authorities nationalised the building, and it later housed a carpet warehouse. In 1998, the synagogue building was returned to the Jewish community of Bielsko-Biała as the first Jewish religious site in Poland to be returned to its rightful heirs after the fall of communism. The Jewish community in Bielsko donated it to the Jewish Centre in Oświęcim the same year. The building underwent thorough restoration based on historical sources and the memoirs of Holocaust survivors and was officially reopened in September 2000. Today, the Chevra Lomdei Mishnayot Synagogue does not have its own rabbi or congregation of worshippers but remains the only Jewish temple in the vicinity of the former Auschwitz camp, serving as a place of prayer, reflection and remembrance.


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