Vukovar Synagogue was the main

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of the Jewish community in

Vukovar Vukovar () ( sr-Cyrl, Вуковар, hu, Vukovár, german: Wukowar) is a city in Croatia, in the eastern region of Slavonia. It contains Croatia's largest river port, located at the confluence of the Vuka and the Danube. Vukovar is the seat of ...

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, after the first smaller synagogue was sold to the

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church in 1910. Filozofski fakultet odsjek za povijest umjetnosti; Dragan Damjanović; O gradnji i stilu prve vukovarske sinagoge iz 1845. godine; stranica 242; 2007. It was constructed in 1889 in the

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, within the

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. The Jews of Vukovar settled in the city in the 19th century from other parts of the

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. The Jewish community in Vukovar was one of the oldest and most significant Jewish communities in Croatia. Ha-Kol (Glasilo Židovske zajednice u Hrvatskoj); Dragan Damjanović; Obitelj Pfeffermann i njihova poslovno stambena jednokatnica u Vukovaru iz 1923; stranica 32; broj 106, srpanj / kolovoz / rujan 2008. The first Vukovar synagogue was built in 1845 by architect Fran Funtak. In 1889, Austria-Hungarian architect Ludwig Schöne ( de) built the Great Vukovar Synagogue for over 200 members of the Vukovar Jewish community. In 1941, during

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, the synagogue was plundered and devastated by the

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. Almost all members of the city's Jewish community were killed during

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; including Rabbi Izrael Scher (also known as Izidor Šer, born 1901) and his wife, Klara (born 1906), both Doctors, who were murdered at the

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in July 1941. In 1958, communist authorities of the

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demolished the synagogue and sold the remaining ruins. A virtual reconstruction of the Vukovar Synagogue has been done by the

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.https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_252899.pdf

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