The Magdeburg Jewish community During the GDR era it was one of the smallest in East Germany, which only grew to new size with the influx of so-called Jewish quota refugees from the Soviet Union and its successor states. Some of them prayed in freedom for the first time in the modest rooms in Magdeburger Neustadt.
For them, the opening of the new building is a big step that shows that they should have a future in Magdeburg. Community leader Inessa Myslitska says with emotion that they are taking the “great energy” from the old community rooms, which were created through the many prayers to God and the memories of a beautiful and moving time, with them to the new synagogue on Julius-Bremer-Straße become.