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Decree on the demolition of the Murska Sobota Synagogue

document

The Murska Sobota City People's Committee

1954. 04. 20.

paper

The construction of the Murska Sobota Synagogue began in 1907, the architect being Lipót Baumhorn. It was consecrated on August 31, 1908. According to the Book on the Banat of Drava published in 1939, in 1931 there were 269 Jews living in the Murska Sobota area. Only a few returned to the Prekmurje after the Holocaust. The authorities at the time failed to find a solution for the synagogue; they thought it was too big for the small community. At its meeting on March 25, 1954, the city’s People's Committee adopted a resolution "to demolish the Israeli synagogue because a block of flats is going to be built on the plot". The people of Murska Sobota still call the building the Jewish block.

Information on digitization

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Name of site

Murska Sobota

Other settlement names

Muraszombat, Sobota

Length

13 strani

Place of origin/discovery

Murska Sobota

Name of institution or personage holding object; identification number of object

Pokrajinski arhiv Maribor/ Maribori Területi Levéltár SI_PAM/0247 Mestni ljudski odbor Murska Sobota, TE 21, spis 189/54 SI_PAM/0247/009/00049

File name

PAM_075_B_0001

Resolution

200 x 200 dpi

Restrictions on use

Brez omejitev

Date of documentation

2018-06-04

Person documenting

Ksenija Rojht

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