The door at the entrance to the synagogue of the Jewish community stands for the "miracle of Halle". She saved dozens of people in the anti-Semitic attack by a right-wing extremist on 9 October.
The synagogue door should now be artistically designed and exhibited. This decision was announced by the chairman of the Jewish community, Max Privorozki. She had been struck by the assembly of the congregation, which held its first regular meeting on Thursday night after the attack. Further details were not communicated.
More than 50 people were in dread in the synagogue when heavily armed Stephan Balliet shot the door on 9 October and dropped explosives. He tried to get into the church. When that failed, he shot a 40-year-old woman from Halle and a short time later a 20-year-old man in a nearby Dönerladen.
On his escape, the shooter injured a couple in Landsberg in the Saalekreis difficult. The 27-year-old has been the act of anti-Semitic and right-wing extremist motives. He is in custody.
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Just over a week after the attack, Privorozki said there were various ideas about where the door should be in the future. "We may put them outside the synagogue in the yard so that when you enter the synagogue, you see how this door has saved us," he said at the time. Maybe the door will also be in town.
According to their own statements, the Jewish community is now in close contact with the state criminal police almost every day to coordinate the new security measures for the synagogue. The regional bishop of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM), Friedrich Kramer, had described it at a memorial service for the victims as "the miracle of Halle" that held the door.
