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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - The Holocaust survivors Esther Bejarano (96) and Peggy Parnass (93) have expressed reservations about the reconstruction of Hamburg's Bornplatz synagogue.
"I doubt the sense of this plan," said Bejarano, according to the Auschwitz Committee on Sunday, when asked whether the synagogue, as a visible sign of Judaism in Hamburg, could stop anti-Semitism.
She added: "We can only fight anti-Semitism if we win over the young."
The empty square in the Grindelviertel symbolizes what has disappeared, the synagogue that was destroyed in 1938.
Bejarano would like a meeting place for all people at today's Joseph-Carlebach-Platz.
"A house in which the causes of anti-Semitism, living conditions today, solidarity and justice, the environment and education are discussed," she said.
Parnassus, who survived the Nazi era in Sweden and still knew the old synagogue, said: «Here I wanted a cozy little synagogue like the one I saw in Prague.
I would love to go to one of those.
I have nothing left for gigantic projects. "
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Since the beginning of January, a poster campaign has been promoting the reconstruction of the Bornplatz synagogue.
On November 27, the Bundestag's budget committee released 65 million euros for the project.
The Hamburg citizenship considers it important to increase the visibility of Jewish life in the city.
A feasibility study should clarify how the new building should be architecturally designed.
The Jewish Community advocates that the new synagogue be linked in its design and dimensions to the destroyed church.
The building was inaugurated in 1908 and was considered the largest synagogue in northern Germany.
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