German Jews gather for Sabbath morning prayers in the synagogue in Breisach.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 69557

Overview

Caption: German Jews gather for Sabbath morning prayers in the synagogue in Breisach.

Cantor Michael Eisemann is leading the service. (Though it is normally forbidden to photograph Sabbath services, an exception was made for the purpose of documenting the community.)

This is part of series of photographs taken of the Breisach Jewish community 1937. In October 1940 the entire community was deported to the Gurs internment camp in southern France.
Photographer: Heinz Bähr
Date: 1937
Locale: Breisach, [Baden; Baden-Wuerttemberg] Germany
Variant Locale: Alt Breisach
Breisasch Am Rhine
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Bahr

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Robert Bahr

Keyword: ARKS (SYNAGOGUE) INTERIORS JEWS (GERMAN) RELIGIOUS ARTICLES RELIGIOUS SERVICES/PRAYER SYNAGOGUES/CHAPELS
Photo Designation: JEWISH LIFE IN NAZI GERMANY -- Religious Life/Institutions