Chest In The Kahal Shalom Synagogue In The Jewish Quarter In The City Of Rhodes To The Victims Of The Holocaust Editorial Photo

There was a large Jewish community on Rhodes who came from Spain and brought many artefacts of the Jewish church with them. Kahal Shalom Synagogue came under direct German control in 1943, and more than 1,550 of the remaining 1,700 Jews were deported and met their deaths in concentration camps, largely putting an end to the use of Kahal Shalom. Kahal Shalom was the only of the four synagogues in La Juderia at the time to survive the bombing during the Second World War. Today, Kahal Shalom is only used for services during the summer, when there is an influx of Jewish tourists and Rhodeslis Jews hailing from Rhodes as there are only 35 Jews on the island today, and as the headquarters for the Jewish Museum of Rhodes.