The Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district office and the district council are commemorating the 85th anniversary of Pogrom Night on November 9, 1938 with a commemorative event accompanied by music and a wreath-laying ceremony in front of the former Lippmann-Tauß Synagogue at Friedenstr. 3.  

On the night of November 10, 1938, the National Socialists and their supporters set fire to synagogues, destroyed Jewish businesses and facilities and humiliated, overpowered and mobbed Jewish fellow citizens. This date is considered the beginning of the unprecedented, systematically organized disenfranchisement and murder of European Jews. Jewish institutions in Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg were also desecrated and destroyed. The Lippmann-Tauß Synagogue was founded in 1776 as a private foundation by Liebmann Meyer Wulff. It changed location several times; from 1893 it was located in a factory building in the courtyard of Gollnowstr. 12. The community moved to Friedenstr. 3 after the November pogroms of 1938 at the latest. From 1940, a kindergarten and emergency accommodation for "needy old people of the Jewish community" were also located here. The last rabbi of the community, Dr. Felix Singermann, was deported to Riga with his wife and six children in 1942 and murdered there.