Innocentiastraße Synagogue (Hamburg)

The villa in Harvestehude was rented by the Sephardic community in 1935 and furnished as a synagogue. The building bore the Hebrew inscription "Holy Congregation of Sephardim Beit Israel - Near is God to all who call upon Him"; on the bay window was a Magen David. Neither had to be removed, despite a protest by the NSDAP to the relevant authorities. In 1938, the synagogue was probably not attacked. After the lease expired at the end of 1939, the building was converted back to residential use. It served thereafter as a "Judenhaus", for the forced housing of Jews* until their deportation. 

Current use: residential house