Jüdisches Gemeindehaus, Jewish community building in Charlottenburg, Germany.
The Jüdisches Gemeindehaus is a postwar modernist building in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin, built in the late 1950s. It houses a large assembly hall, educational rooms, a library, and a kosher restaurant.
A synagogue stood on this site until it was destroyed during the November 1938 pogroms. The building that replaced it was put up in the late 1950s as part of the effort to renew Jewish life in postwar Berlin.
The name of the building points directly to the Jewish community that rebuilt its presence here after the war. Today, people gather in this place for religious services, study, and shared meals at the kosher restaurant inside.
The building sits on Fasanenstraße in Charlottenburg and is easy to reach by public transport. Because it is an active community center, it is worth checking in advance whether a service or event is taking place, as access may be limited on those days.
On 9 November 1969, the left-wing group Tupamaros West-Berlin planned a bomb attack on the memorial ceremony held here for the November 1938 pogroms. The memorial wall, bearing the names of the concentration and extermination camps, was moved to the front courtyard during renovation work in 2002.
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