{"id":20629,"date":"2025-04-24T02:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T23:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/?p=20629"},"modified":"2025-04-23T22:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:01:19","slug":"the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Reignited the Flame of Synagogues Lost to Kristallnacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What began as a disagreement with a city mayor led to the rediscovery of thousands of synagogues that were burned and forgotten. Meir Schwarz, a historian and Holocaust survivor, was just 12 years old when he saw the synagogue where he prayed engulfed in flames on the morning of November 9\u2014Kristallnacht. Fifty years later, while visiting his hometown, he found no trace of it. That day, Meir\u2014my grandfather\u2014embarked on a journey to uncover the synagogues destroyed on that terrible night. A journey that would change history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The synagogue in flames<\/strong><br \/>\nIt happened at midnight, on November 9, 1938. Fifteen-year-old Yosef and twelve-year-old Meir were asleep at home in Nuremberg. Their mother was hospitalized. Their father\u2014gabbai of the synagogue\u2014was missing. They were later told he had died of a heart attack. That night, a loud pounding on the door. Yosef went to open it\u2014and was struck in the face. A group of Germans stormed in, smashing, looting, stealing. Among the stolen items were Meir\u2019s tefillin. Before leaving, the attackers warned them clearly: don\u2019t leave the house until morning.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20634\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20634 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht2.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht2.webp 460w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht2-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht2-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four-year-old Meir Schwarz with his older brother Yosef | Photo: Courtesy of the family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The next morning, Meir and his brother stepped outside. They saw injured, silent Jews. Then\u2014they saw their synagogue burning. Just a few streets away, another synagogue in flames. That night would be called Kristallnacht. Hitler understood: if the world stayed silent while synagogues burned, he could go further.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your father didn\u2019t die of a heart attack\u2014he was murdered<\/strong><br \/>\nForty years later, Meir was living in Jerusalem. One phone call changed everything: the widow of his cousin asked him to come to London before her death. She revealed the truth\u2014his father hadn\u2019t died of natural causes. He had been shot at the train station. Stunned but determined, Meir flew to Germany, sat in a small caf\u00e9, and began a conversation with an elderly local man. Believing Meir to be a historian, the man invited him to his home.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20635\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20635 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht3-610x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht3-610x1024.webp 610w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht3-179x300.webp 179w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht3.webp 677w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meir\u2019s father, Eliezer Schwarz, in his World War I officer\u2019s uniform | Photo: Courtesy of the family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI was a soldier in the German army during the war,\u201d the man said. \u201cDuring training we\u2019d occasionally return home. One winter day, I arrived at the train station with a friend. We saw a Jew\u2014and we shot him.\u201d Meir filed a complaint, but the man died of old age six months later. The confession was in hand\u2014but the trial would never take place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThis is where our synagogue stood\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nFifty-five years after Kristallnacht, Meir Schwarz\u2014a professor of biology and world-renowned expert in aquatic crops\u2014was invited to lecture in Nuremberg, his hometown. The mayor offered to give him a tour. Meir pointed to a gas station: \u201cThis is where our synagogue stood.\u201d The mayor replied politely: \u201cThere\u2019s no record of a synagogue here.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20636\" style=\"width: 546px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20636 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht4.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht4.webp 546w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht4-297x300.webp 297w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht4-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meir Schwarz and his wife Miriam beside the monument built in memory of the &#8216;Adas Israel&#8217; synagogue | Photo: Courtesy of the family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meir didn\u2019t hesitate. That evening, he wrote a 20-page report detailing the synagogue\u2014its rabbis, customs, and architecture. The next day, he handed it to the mayor, who returned in shock: it was all true. The following day, Meir pointed to another location. This time, the mayor didn\u2019t argue\u2014he investigated, and another forgotten synagogue was revealed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The conclusion: a flame that never went out<\/strong><br \/>\nMeir realized: if two synagogues were forgotten, perhaps hundreds more had been lost to history. Over the next 15 years, he researched, documented, and published six books\u2014revealing that not 250, but around 2,890 synagogues were destroyed on Kristallnacht. His findings prompted the revision of history books around the world. Thanks to his initiative, many synagogues in Israel now keep their lights on through the night of November 9\u2014a symbol of a flame that never went out.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20637\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20637 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht5-1024x514.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht5-1024x514.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht5-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht5-768x385.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht5-1536x770.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht5.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With over 100 descendants. The family of Meir Schwarz about a year and a half before his passing | Photo: Courtesy of the family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meir Schwarz passed away three years ago, on his 96th birthday. He left behind more than one hundred descendants\u2014and a corrected chapter in Jewish history. He was a boy who saw synagogues burn, and became the man who brought them back into memory.<\/p>\n<p>By Aviad Schwarz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meir Schwarz was a child on the night that changed his life. Seventy years later, his research reshaped history books and helped the world grasp the true scope of that horrific night: not 250 synagogues destroyed\u2014but nearly 2,900.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,2276,88],"tags":[3716,2116,3711,4681,3775,4679,4680,4678,4682],"class_list":["post-20629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judaism","category-people","category-will-remember","tag-historical-memory","tag-holocaust","tag-holocaust-remembrance-day","tag-holocaust-research","tag-jewish-heritage","tag-kristallnacht","tag-meir-schwarz","tag-synagogue","tag-synagogue-history"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Man Who Reignited the Flame of Synagogues Lost to Kristallnacht - REGA news<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Man Who Reignited the Flame of Synagogues Lost to Kristallnacht\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Meir Schwarz was a child on the night that changed his life. Seventy years later, his research reshaped history books and helped the world grasp the true scope of that horrific night: not 250 synagogues destroyed\u2014but nearly 2,900.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"REGA news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-23T23:00:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht1.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"563\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"370\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"By Rega News Staff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"By Rega News Staff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"By Rega News Staff\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/3f9b86ab4cc807acf1c0839b1f1ac2ce\"},\"headline\":\"The Man Who Reignited the Flame of Synagogues Lost to Kristallnacht\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-23T23:00:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/\"},\"wordCount\":754,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht1.webp\",\"keywords\":[\"Historical Memory\",\"Holocaust\",\"Holocaust Remembrance Day\",\"Holocaust research\",\"Jewish heritage\",\"Kristallnacht\",\"Meir Schwarz\",\"synagogue\",\"synagogue history\"],\"articleSection\":[\"JUDAISM\",\"PEOPLE\",\"REMEMBERING\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/\",\"name\":\"The Man Who Reignited the Flame of Synagogues Lost to Kristallnacht - REGA news\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht1.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-23T23:00:50+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht1.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht1.webp\",\"width\":563,\"height\":370,\"caption\":\"The 'Adas Israel' synagogue after Kristallnacht | Photo: Courtesy of the family\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Man Who Reignited the Flame of Synagogues Lost to Kristallnacht\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/\",\"name\":\"REGA news\",\"description\":\"Get used to hearing well\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"REGA news\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ega.news-logo.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ega.news-logo.svg\",\"width\":228.4,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"REGA news\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/3f9b86ab4cc807acf1c0839b1f1ac2ce\",\"name\":\"By Rega News Staff\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/25250c8c3d1d34385fa41965bfcb445b6d59a9fc6ae46a480a8bac49eb507d67?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/25250c8c3d1d34385fa41965bfcb445b6d59a9fc6ae46a480a8bac49eb507d67?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"By Rega News Staff\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/author\/inonfar\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Man Who Reignited the Flame of Synagogues Lost to Kristallnacht - REGA news","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Man Who Reignited the Flame of Synagogues Lost to Kristallnacht","og_description":"Meir Schwarz was a child on the night that changed his life. Seventy years later, his research reshaped history books and helped the world grasp the true scope of that horrific night: not 250 synagogues destroyed\u2014but nearly 2,900.","og_url":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/","og_site_name":"REGA news","article_published_time":"2025-04-23T23:00:50+00:00","og_image":[{"width":563,"height":370,"url":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht1.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"author":"By Rega News Staff","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"By Rega News Staff","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/"},"author":{"name":"By Rega News Staff","@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/3f9b86ab4cc807acf1c0839b1f1ac2ce"},"headline":"The Man Who Reignited the Flame of Synagogues Lost to Kristallnacht","datePublished":"2025-04-23T23:00:50+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/"},"wordCount":754,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht1.webp","keywords":["Historical Memory","Holocaust","Holocaust Remembrance Day","Holocaust research","Jewish heritage","Kristallnacht","Meir Schwarz","synagogue","synagogue history"],"articleSection":["JUDAISM","PEOPLE","REMEMBERING"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/","url":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/","name":"The Man Who Reignited the Flame of Synagogues Lost to Kristallnacht - REGA news","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht1.webp","datePublished":"2025-04-23T23:00:50+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht1.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/crystalnacht1.webp","width":563,"height":370,"caption":"The 'Adas Israel' synagogue after Kristallnacht | Photo: Courtesy of the family"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/the-man-who-reignited-the-flame-of-synagogues-lost-to-kristallnacht\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Man Who Reignited the Flame of Synagogues Lost to Kristallnacht"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/","name":"REGA news","description":"Get used to hearing well","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#organization","name":"REGA news","url":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ega.news-logo.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ega.news-logo.svg","width":228.4,"height":96,"caption":"REGA news"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/3f9b86ab4cc807acf1c0839b1f1ac2ce","name":"By Rega News Staff","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/25250c8c3d1d34385fa41965bfcb445b6d59a9fc6ae46a480a8bac49eb507d67?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/25250c8c3d1d34385fa41965bfcb445b6d59a9fc6ae46a480a8bac49eb507d67?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"By Rega News Staff"},"url":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/author\/inonfar\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20641,"href":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20629\/revisions\/20641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}