Slavonski Brod Synagogue was a synagogue of the Jewish Community

Slavonski Brod Slavonski Brod (), commonly shortened to simply Brod, is a city in eastern Croatia, near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. Being one of the principal cities in the historical regions of Slavonia and Posavina, Slavonski Brod was the 7th large ...

. Slavonski Brod Synagogue was built under Jakob Kohn, the president of the Jewish Community Slavonski Brod, in the 1896 by

Hönigsberg & Deutsch Hönigsberg & Deutsch was an architecture studio and construction company formed in Zagreb by architects Leo Hönigsberg and Julio Deutsch, active between 1889 and 1911. They produced over 90 known works in the Lower Town area of Zagreb, built ...

architecture studio. At the time Jewish Community Slavonski Brod counted over 110 members. The synagogue was burned by

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s in 1941, and remains were bombed by allied forces during the bombing of Slavonski Brod in 1944. Synagogue rabbi

Leib Weissberg Leib Weissberg (January 9, 1893 – 1942) was a Slavonski Brod rabbi who was killed during the Holocaust. Weissberg was born in Probużna (then part of Austria-Hungary) to Jewish parents Seide and Ehaja (née Ringel) Weissberg. He was married t ...

was killed with his family at the Jasenovac concentration camp in 1942. On November 3, 1994, the memorial plaque was unveiled which marks the site of the Slavonski Brod Synagogue.

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