Editing Plauen (section)

==Jewish Community of Plauen==
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[[File:Synagogue Plauen.jpg|thumb|https://www.plauen.de/Verwaltung-und-Stadtrat/Stadtinformationen/Wahlen/Landratswahl-am-03-07-2022/Gemeindehaus-mit-Synagoge.php?object=tx,3317.3.1&ModID=6&FID=3317.2359.1&NavID=3317.2051&La=1&kuo=1]] The Jewish community of Plauen dates back to the early 14th century<ref>Centre for Holocaust Education. ''Life in Plauen Photo Cards.'' https://holocausteducation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Life-in-Plauen-Photo-cards.pdf</ref> and numbered several hundred between the two world wars. A reform-Jewish, bauhaus-style synagogue was opened in 1930, only to be demolished in 1938 during the [[Kristallnacht]]. 
Plauen becoming a Nazi stronghold, attacks against the Jewish community were frequent in the 1920s.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://germansynagogues.com/index.php/synagogues-and-communities?pid=54&sid=1055:plauen | title=Archive - saxony - Plauen }}</ref> Physically labelled Jews are documented from 1932.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/amjwld/1932/08/12/01/article/4/?srpos=1&e=------193-he-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI-PLAUEN-------------1 | title=⁨Police Double Guard as Nazis Attacks on Merchants Continue ⁩ &#124; ⁨The American Jewish World⁩ &#124; 12 אוגוסט 1932 &#124; אוסף העיתונות &#124; הספרייה הלאומית }}</ref> Most of the Jewish population either left or was killed during [[The Holocaust]]. 
Today, no Jewish community exists in Plauen. The city of Plauen maintains a few sites in the city to commemorate past Jewish life in Plauen, such as the Jewish Cemetery.

A 3D-model of the Jewish Synagogue of Plauen was designed by Prof. Marc Grellert and his team from the TU Darmstadt as a part of his project to 3D-design German synagogues that were demolished before, during and after WW2.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Architektur |date=2021-11-09 |title=9. November: 18 Synagogen für eine Nacht digital rekonstruiert |url=https://www.architektur.tu-darmstadt.de/fachbereich/aktuelles_arch/architektur_news_details_133952.de.jsp |access-date=2023-07-19 |website=Architektur – TU Darmstadt |language=de}}</ref>