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en Speech Given by Mayor Max Brauer on the Occasion of the Groundbreaking for the Synagogue at Hohe Weide, November 9, 1958 https://dx.doi.org/10.23691/jgo:source-146.en.v1 Max Brauer Institute for the History of the German Jews Online Ressource When the foundation stone of the new synagogue was laid on November 9, 1958, Hamburg’s mayor, Max Brauer, was present to give a speech. Hamburg’s first synagogue of the postwar period was built at Hohe Weide. Previously the small Jewish congregation had to hold prayer services in provisional prayer halls. In his speech, which was about twelve minutes long, Max Brauer commemorated the persecution and murder of Hamburg’s Jewish citizens during National Socialism and honored the efforts made to rebuild Jewish life after 1945. His speech was broadcast on the radio on November 11, 1958 and is in the collection of the NDR sound archive  Tonarchiv. According to archive records, the broadcast was produced by the editorial staff of the program “Reportage.” The sound recording includes both Brauer’s speech, which is interrupted by the reading of the founding charter, and a speech given by Rabbi Ludwig Salomonowicz. At the end of the recording, the symbolic groundbreaking by spade and the blessing spoken by the rabbi can be heard. 2017-08-21