Rostock's Jews to inaugurate their new community center

The 620 members of the Jewish community in the city of Rostock, in northeastern Germany, will soon receive the keys for their new community center. The building - which is close to the site where the old synagogue was burnt down during "Pogrom Night" on 9 November 1938 - will be inaugurated on 5 September. The new center, which includes a new synagogue, has cost a total of € 900,000, was in large parts funded by the city council. Rostock's Jewish Community was re-founded in 1994, five years after the fall of the Communist regime in east Germany.