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Typed description on verso reads: "Clouds of smoke rose from three domes of the stone building," reported a New York Times correspondent, surveying the destruction by fire of Berlin's Fasanenstrasse synagogue. "The interior was a furnace, with the tile roof about to collapse as the fire ate at the rafters. Worship benches, books and other inflammable materials had been piled in the center..."
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Fasanenstrasse synagogue in Berlin : Destroyed, April 16, 1941, Leo Baeck Institute, F 21316.