Sunday, 9th of November 2025, 7.30 pm  • Commemoration of the pogrom night • 

SW-Luftaufnahme der brennenden Synagoge © Korbacher Stadtarchiv; Just smoking rubble: the destroyed synagogue in Korbach on the morning of November 10, 1938, right next to the burned-out school of the Jewish community.

Ev. Martin´s-church and Synagogue

The prayer for peace will take place in St Martin's Church from 7.30 pm.

The subsequent memorial service will take place at 8.00 pm in the former synagogue.
The names of the victims are mentioned and a candle is lit for each one. The prayer for the dead - known as the Kaddish - will be said in German by Pastor Günter Maier and in Aramaic by Holger Wagemann from the liberal Jewish community in Felsberg.

A joint event of Ev.-luth. Kirchengemeinde Vöhl and of Förderkreises Synagoge in Vöhl.

 

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