Resurrection in Berlin

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Miracles do happen

 

 

Germany's biggest synagogue, which survived the horrors of the Nazi holocaust and the oppression of communist rule, reopened on Friday as a symbol of the rebirth of the Jewish community.

 

A special ceremony was held at the century old red-brick building in East Berlin which narrowly avoided being destroyed in the Kristallnacht -- the night in 1938 when Adolf Hitlers followers torched Jewish homes, businesses and places of worship.

 

Ninety-four year-old rabbi Leo Trepp, who had preached at the synagogue in the 1930s, calls the reopening a "miracle".

 

Trepp was among the guests at the inauguration ceremony in the restored building with political leaders and Holocaust survivors from around the world.