Bielsko Synagogue was a synagogue in
Bielsko
Bielsko (german: Bielitz, cs, Bílsko) was until 1950 an independent town situated in Cieszyn Silesia, Poland. In 1951 it was joined with Biała Krakowska to form the new town of Bielsko-Biała. Bielsko constitutes the western part of that ...
,
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 mill ...
. It was built in 1879–1881, designed by Karol Korn. The synagogue was completely destroyed by
Nazis
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hit ...
on 13 September 1939.
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Buildings and structures in Bielsko-Biała
Cieszyn Silesia
Former synagogues in Poland
19th-century synagogues
Modern Orthodox Judaism in Europe
Moorish Revival synagogues
Romanesque Revival synagogues
Holocaust locations in Poland
Synagogues in Poland destroyed by Nazi Germany
Modern Orthodox synagogues
Orthodox synagogues in Poland
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