Event · Fire
Fire damaging the Jewish quarter
A fire spread to neighboring houses and destroyed part of the new synagogue.
Page scan 47HIGH confidence
Learn more with AI
Read more about Fire damaging the Jewish quarter than the memorial book alone records. The assistant works from this record's own source passages and searches trusted archives — Yad Vashem, USHMM, YIVO, Virtual Shtetl, JewishGen and Wikipedia — and shows you what it found, with its sources.
Source passages
Each passage remains attached to its exact scan and opens in the standalone evidence reader.
Primary source passage
OCR · respaced for reading · scan 47
... החזן מרדכי ובמהירות התפשטו להבות האש לבתים
השכנים. גם חלק גדול מבית־הכגס ת החדש נהרס. ...