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The Inowrocław Synagogue was a former
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, that was located at 64 Solankowa Street, in what is now Skwer Jan-Paweł II, in
Inowrocław Inowrocław (; , ) is a city in central Poland with a total population of 68,101 (as of December 2022). It is situated in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is one of the largest and most historically significant cities within the historic re ...
, in the
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of
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. Designed in the
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style under the supervision of J. Baumgarten, and completed in 1908, the synagogue served as a house of prayer until World War II when it was destroyed by
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in 1939.


History

The structure was built in 1908, with funds provided almost entirely by Leopold Levy. After
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's invasion of Poland in 1939, the Nazis attempted to turn it into a bathhouse or swimming pool, but were unable to, so they destroyed the former synagogue. A statue of
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, a Polish literary figure who was born on the outskirts of the city in the village of Szymborze now occupies the site of the former synagogue. The adjacent
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was renamed Skwer Jan-Paweł II, in honor of
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. Another synagogue in Inowrocław was located on Ulica Rzeźnicka. It was also demolished, believed to have occurred during the 1980s, and a private house now stands on the site of the former synagogue.


See also

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History of the Jews in Poland The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Jews, Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the long pe ...
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List of active synagogues in Poland Before the Nazi German invasion of Poland in 1939, almost every Polish town had a synagogue or a Jewish house of prayer of some kind. The 1939 statistics recorded the total of 1,415 Jewish communities in the country just before the outbreak of ...


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