HAMBURG, Germany — A Jewish school opened this week in a Hamburg, Germany, building which prior to World War II was used to teach 400 Jewish kids.
Jewish School Returns to Hamburg Building Left Judenrein by Nazis
HAMBURG, Germany — A Jewish school opened this week in a Hamburg, Germany, building which prior to World War II was used to teach 400 Jewish kids.
Housed in a magnificent building in the central part of the city, the Talmud Torah Realschule represents the return of Jewish children since the old school was shuttered by Nazi forces in 1939.
Two years ago, Hamburg’s Jewish communal apparatus, the Judische Gemeinde, purchased the 200-year-old building, which was occupied by the University of Hamburg after the war. Today, following a thorough refurbishment, the building is home to the community’s offices, a Jewish kindergarten and, on its top two floors, the Jewish day school.
“It was a holiday for the Jews here in Hamburg,” Chani Bistritzky, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Hamburg and a teacher in the school, said of the Aug. 28 grand opening. “It is great that we could work together with the Judische Gemeinde and create the possibility for Jewish education here in Hamburg. Today, we learned the Hebrew Alef Bet! It was amazing.”
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