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Synagogue (Glatz) The synagogue in Kłodzko (German: Glatz), a town in the Kłodzko County in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland, was built 1884–1885 on the Grünestraße [Green Street] (today's Wojska Polskiego Street).

Project and destroy
The synagogue was built on the initiative of the Progressive Jews, according to the plans of the Breslau architect Albert Grau (1837–1900), student of Georg Gottlob Ungewitter, in the style of the Neo-Moorish and Brick-neo-Gothic.

During the November Pogrom (9 November 1938), colloquially euphemised as "Kristallnacht", the synagogue was destroyed by an arson attack of Nazis.

Memory
Reinhard Schindler, a former Glatz citizen, developed the idea of having a memorial stone placed for the synagogue. The memorial stone was erected in 1995 with a anodised aluminium plaque in Polish, Hebrew and German commemorating the destroyed synagogue. The inscription reads:

''Here stood the Glatz synagogue, desecrated and burned by the Nazis in the Pogrom Night of November 9, 1938. Former German and current Polish citizens in 1995 – 50 years after the end of the war.''

Sculpture
In the years 2015–2016, the German sculptor Gerhard Roese of Darmstadt created a sculpture of the synagogue made of cast aluminium weighing approx. 100 kg. The collected materials, plans and sketches, together with photos and a description of the burning of the temple, was published as a book by Roese under the title: Decalogue on Fire. The artistic work under the same title includes the sculpture of the synagogue, a sculpture of the Ten Commandments above the portal, and a sculpture of one of the cast-iron gallery columns that collapsed during the fire in its rubble and ash bed. In addition, fifteen 1 × 1 meter large panels of photographs by Günter Veit and a synagogue with a fragment of a Torah scroll, probably stolen in Poland by a member of the Wehrmacht. In May 2018, Roese brought the entire work to Kłodzko with the help of a group of young people and donated it to the city. The sculpture and other materials from the exhibition of Roese were also in 2018 in the project Topography of Terror installed in Berlin and published in a catalog.

Synagogue Revival
On the eve of the Reichsprogromnacht, also Kristallnacht on November 8, 2018, the Muzeum Ziemi Kłodzkiej w Kłodzku (Museum of the Kłodzko Land), together with the Polish activists and the sculptor from Darmstadt, hosted an event commemorating the terror 80 years ago and the former Jewish community under the motto Synagoga Reviva. Gerhard Roese talked about his idea and implementation of the sculpture model of the synagogue.

Students from various schools in Kłodzko and a group of adults participated. They learned what is known about the structure and its destruction today, as well as that of two surviving ladies, Ruth Prager and Shoshana Efrati, who had visited in their young years the synagogue with their parents. Henryk Grzybowski told about their fate from former Glatz, to Chile and Israel.

After a small concert with Yiddish and Hebrew songs performed by Sylwia Grzybowska, everyone went to the synagogue memorial stone and lit candles.

The new commemorative plaque
On January 26, 2019, a commemorative plaque with content in three languages was stolen from stone. On March 22, 2019, a new stone tablet financed from contributions from the community of Kłodzko and former German residents was unveiled.