Statement on the attack of Hamas on Israel, 10-7- 2023, Simchat Torah
Once again, the people of Israel are hit by rockets and terror on a Jewish holiday. Once again they have to fear that the only halfway safe place to live in the world is being pulled out from under their feet. Jews have been persecuted and killed for millennia in every conceivable corner of the globe. Our hearts bleed when we realize that they find no peace even in Israel. From the cowardly attack of Hamas on Israeli civilians, from the kidnappings and exposures of the victims, an unmasked anti-Semitism looks at us – a fanaticism to want to destroy the state of Israel and all Jews.
We condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms and show our solidarity with the people of Israel and the Jews all over the world – but also with all Palestinians who suffer under Hamas' reign of terror. At the same time, we condemn the Iranian regime's gloating reaction to the attacks. Our solidarity is also with the courageous Iranians who are fighting their own oppressive regime and do not see Israel as an enemy.
Our thoughts and prayers are with all - in Israel, in Palestine, in Iran and elsewhere – who must fear and fight for their freedom and their lives these days. We will continue to do everything in our power to uphold the memory of the Shoah in Germany and especially in our region, to stand by the weak and the attacked in our country as well – and to resolutely fight anti-Semitism as well as anti-Muslim racism and every other form of racism and violence.
Arbeitskreis Landsynagoge Roth e.V.
In accordance with the declaration of: Judaica Meimbressen e.V., Verein der Freundinnen und Freunde jüdischen Lebens im Werra-Meißner-Kreis, Arbeitskreis Rückblende - Gegen das Vergessen e.V., Förderkreises Synagoge in Vöhl e.V. and many private individuals.
Virtual reconstruction of the interior
©ArchitecturaVirtualis GmbH; screenshot, reconstruction in the 20´s
©ArchitecturaVirtualis GmbH; screenshot: reconstruction around 1900.
Since our anniversary in 2023, they can experience the original interior of the synagogue with the help of virtual reality glasses. Here is a film about the reconstruction.
Video on our youtube channel
Dr. -Ing. Marc Grellert of ArchitecturaVirtualis GmbH (cooperation partner of the Technical University of Darmstadt) has created this work. It is part of an overall project in Germany that reconstructs synagogues destroyed during the Nazi era.
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In the spring of 2023, we opened an Instagram channel. Take a look!
Trude Meyer, née Löwenstein, 15th of August 1924 to 22nd of December 2022
Trude Meyer, née Löwenstein, 15th of August 1924 to 22nd of December 2022
The Roth Rural Synagogue Working Group mourns the loss of its dear friend Trude Meyer, née Löwenstein from Fronhausen, who passed away in San Francisco on 22 December 2022 at the age of 98. Trude had to endure inhuman conditions in the Nazi camps and factories and found the strength to share her experiences with us. For this we are deeply grateful to her. We will miss her warmth and her lively participation in all our activities. Our sympathy goes to her sons and all her relatives.
The Arbeitskreis Landsynagoge Roth mourns the loss of its dear friend Trude Meyer née Löwenstein from Fronhausen, who passed away in San Francisco on 22 December 2022 at the age of 98. Trude had to endure inhuman conditions in the Nazi camps and factories and found the strength to share her experiences with us. For this we are deeply grateful to her. We will miss her warmth and her lively participation in all our activities. Our sympathy goes to her sons and all her relatives.
We publish below the translation of an obituary written by the Meyer family:
2021, We celebrate our birthday: 25 years of the Arbeitskreis Landsynagoge Roth!
Deliberately founded on the first nationwide Holocaust Memorial Day, January 27, 1996, the seven founding members Renate Blöcher, Gerhard Fischer, Harald Händler, Barbara Händler-Lachmann, Dietmar Haubfleisch, Gabriele C. Schmitt and Annegret Wenz-Haubfleisch formulated as the purpose of the association "the preservation of the former synagogue in Weimar/Lahn, village of Roth, and its use as a memorial, museum, place of learning and site of cultural encounters". In 1998, after the building had been restored and could be put to public use, the association concluded a contract of use with the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf as owner and has since been solely responsible for the cultural work in the building.
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The main focus of the activities in and around the synagogue can be characterized by the terms commemorative, cultural and educational work. Over the years, a great variety of forms have been developed, sustainable partnerships have been formed and firm cooperations have been entered into, for example with the Jewish Community of Marburg, the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, the History Workshop Marburg, the Philipps University, similar initiatives in Hesse, the Comprehensive School Niederwalgern, the Ricarda Huch School in Giessen and its partner school Eldad High School in Netanya (Israel), to name but a few. In all these years, special importance was attached to maintaining relations with the survivors of the Shoah in the USA and their continuation with the next generations, which to everyone's delight has succeeded and led to warm-hearted friendships.
A book documenting all these aspects has been published for the anniversary. However, it is not a "classic" chronicle of the association, but reflects the many facets of the association's work in personal texts by survivors and descendants, cooperation partners and friends, members and board members of the association, illustrated with expressive pictures. Taking into account the relations with the friends in the USA, it was published bilingually in German and English. The book is available from the association for 19 euros: “Love Your Neighbor …“. 25 Years of Commemorative, Cultural and Educational Activity in the Rural Synagogue in Roth, ed. by Annegret Wenz-Haubfleisch, Weimar-Roth 2021.