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guage, so they need help with
many things," explained Ms.
Pringsheim. For instance, she
and her staff often help the Russ-
ian emigres with filling out forms
to going grocery shopping.
There's also a committee to
help newly arrived emigres find
appropriate housing. "The town
subsidizes them, but we in the
community help them find the ac-
tual places," she said.
Twice a week, 80 year old Hup-
pert Mr. Ottokar, originally from
Czechoslovakia, gives German
lessons to the Russians.
Like Ottokar, the longtime
members of the community are
often from Eastern Europe —
from Roumaia, Hungary,and
Czechoslovakia. Then, too, there
are members from elsewhere in
Europe, plus several Israelis, and
a few German-born members,
too.
"We have at least 20 different
nationalities. We're a very diverse
community," said Ms. Pring-
sheim, who was born in Carlisle,
England, but grew up in Wies-
baden.
There have been dramatic
changes in this community over
the years. On one wall is a photo
of a large and imposing Moorish-
style synagogue that once stood
proudly in central Wiesbaden.
But it was completely destroyed
on "Kristallnacht", November 9,
1938, the night when synagogues
and Jewish businesses all over
Germany were set on fire or oth-
erwise destroyed. That same
night the smaller Orthodox syn-
agogue on Friedrichstrasse was
partly damaged.
By that time, the Jews of Wies-
baden had suffered all the hard-
ships of German Jews under the
Nazis: Children were forbidden
to attend public schools; mem-
bership lists of Jewish organiza-
tions had to be handed over to the
Gestapo; and many Jews had em-
igrated to other countries. By
1942, those who still remained —
abut 800 — were deported to
Theresienstadt.
But after the war ended, this
tiny community gradually rebuilt
itself. The American army was
based here, and the area rabbi
befriended the many displaced
persons who came to Wiesbaden
from the camps by collecting food
for them and conducting services.
Meanwhile, some Jews who
had returned to Wiesbaden and
others had settled here from
elsewhere. In 1946, they orga-
nized a new community, gather-
ing for services in the partly
destroyed Orthodox synagogue
as their headquarters.
The community continued to
grow, and by 1966, the members
dedicated a new synagogue and
community center, on the same
site where the old synagogue had
stood.
The modern headquarters has
reminders of that past. Out in the
courtyard, we look at an original