Stones from a Jewish temple destroyed in Germany just before World War II have been discovered by construction workers in the Isar River.
On Hitler’s orders, the major synagogue in Munich was destroyed in June 1938.
The debris was then kept in storage until 1956, when it was dumped into the river along with the wreckage of other structures, where it has remained ever since.
The finding of the Ten Commandments, according to Bernhard Purin, director of the Jewish Museum Munich, was particularly touching.
He called viewing the synagogue’s ruins “one of the most moving moments in my 30 years of working in Jewish museums.”
“These stones are a part of Munich’s Jewish history,” said Charlotte Knobloch, 90, a prominent member of Munich’s Jewish community who used to attend services there.
“I really didn’t expect fragments to survive, let alone that we would see them,” she continued.
In the place where the synagogue formerly stood, there is now a Karstadt department store.
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