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Rubble from the main synagogue in Munich destroyed 85 years ago on the orders of Adolf Hitler has been found in a chance discovery in a river flowing through the city.
Columns from the building, which was razed in Nazi Germany in 1938, as well as a stone tablet etched with the Ten Commandments were discovered last Friday, according to the Münchner Merkur newspaper. “We never thought we would find anything from it,” Bernhard Purin, the head of Munich’s Jewish museum, told the BBC.
“Yesterday I saw [the remains] for the first time and it was one of the most moving moments in 30 years of working in Jewish museums, especially seeing the plaque of the Ten Commandments not seen since 1938,” Purin added.