invasion of Poland. The plans to raise a new synagogue in Katowice arose around 1890, when the Old Synagogue became too small for the local worshippers...

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Katowice is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has...

passed just east of Beuthen, so that neighboring Katowice was in Poland. Built in 1869, the synagogue was destroyed by Nazis on November 9, 1938, during...

1989–present The history of Katowice spans over 600 years. The territory became part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century. Katowice started as a conglomerate...

carried out by Germans between September 4 and 6 Great Synagogue in Katowice – major landmark in Katowice, burned by the Germans either on September 4 or...

taking the town was the destruction of the Great Synagogue (on 8 September). In 1961, the Defenders of Katowice Monument [pl] was unveiled. On 4 September...

located in the Katowice Voivodeship. Będzin is one of the cities of the 2.7 million conurbation - Katowice urban area and within a greater Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan...

(980 ft)). The country's first high-rises started to be constructed in Warsaw, Katowice, Wrocław and Łódź in the first half of the 20th century. The PAST Building...

Sieczkowski, 1937–39) Former Silesian Parliament in Katowice (by Ludwik Wojtyczko, 1925–29) Skyscraper in Katowice (by Tadeusz Kozłowski and Stefan Bryła, 1929–34)...

established by Jewish religious leaders at a conference held at Kattowitz (Katowice) in 1912. They were concerned that the Tenth Zionist Congress had defeated...

synagogue fostered the development of the umbrella organization called Beit Polska. Beit Polska is active in Gdansk, Lodz, Lublin, Wroclaw, Katowice,...

Rabbinic Congress. In 1912, he took part in the Agudat Israel congress in Katowice, Poland. Between 1927 and 1931, he again served in Tula. In 1933, he received...

1884, 36 Jewish Zionist delegates met in Katowice, forming the Hovevei Zion movement. The pogroms prompted a great wave of Jewish emigration to the United...

(even if only in the sense that it is unrelated to modernist movement) synagogues, rites, and observances. Academic research noted that the formation of...

in the Silesian Highlands near Katowice. Located in the north of the Metropolis GZM, a megalopolis, the greater Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area populated...

wooden synagogue burnt down in 1716 and new brick synagogue was commenced in 1726. The project was supported by the Lubomirski family and the synagogue, which...

historical and architectural monuments, including tenements, churches, synagogues and the medieval Royal Castle. According to tradition, but not confirmed...

(1610; rebuilt in the early XX century; restored in 1989); two Jewish synagogues – the main one (1680s) and the new one (1909; architect Hans Geldkremer);...

inhabitants (2019). It is the seat of Wodzisław County. It was previously in Katowice Voivodeship (1975–1998); close to the border with the Czech Republic, about...

intersection of the routes to and from Brno – Prague, Ostrava – Kraków/Katowice (Poland), Kúty – Bratislava (Slovakia) and Hohenau an der March – Vienna...

district. Pszczyna is situated in Silesia Province and was previously part of Katowice Province from 1975 until 1998 administrative reforms. There are several...

3 vol. (2006). Vol 1, p. 91. "Budapest Dohany street Great Synagogue – the largest synagogue in Europe". Greatsynagogue.hu. Retrieved 18 August 2012...

January and February 1945, many prisoners from other locations, including Katowice, Racibórz, Brzeg and Nysa, were brought to the local prison either during...

an important railroad junction. In Kluczbork the major rail line from Katowice splits into two directions – westwards to Wrocław and northwards to Poznań...

to Kielce Voivodeship (1945–1950), and then the city was transferred to Katowice Voivodeship. In the Polish People's Republic, Częstochowa emerged not only...

best-preserved examples of the Modernist architecture in Europe is located in Katowice, Upper Silesia, designed and built in the 1930s. Interesting buildings...

this time. Jews established a widely respected yeshiva, Jewish hospital, synagogue, cemetery, and education centre (kahal) and built the Grodzka Gate (known...

France Romanesque interior, Schöngrabern, Austria St Bartholomew-the-Great, London Katowice, Poland Interior of a Medieval Welsh church c. 1910 St. Andrew Memorial...

established in Lviv: Pogoń Lwów, Czarni Lwów, Lechia Lwów, Hasmonea Lwów Great Suburb Synagogue Win with the Lion Wanda Mejbaum-Katzenellenbogen Banks in Lviv Zaxid...