Newspaper clipping about a memorial service marking the Holocaust at Newport Cathedral, February 2007

Description

This undated newspaper clipping from the South Wales Argus describes the memorial prayer service held at St. Woolos Cathedral in Newport on the Holocaust Memorial Day in 2007. At the event, City Toastmaster Harry Poloway read an extract from Anne Frank's diaries, to honour the 60th anniversary of their publication in 2007. The article includes an interview with Newport's mayor Miqdad Al-Nuaimi and mentions that Mayor Al-Nuaimi will plant a memorial rose in the grounds of Tredegar House on 7 February 2007.The article has been published online at http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/1153262.holocaust_remembered with the names of the authors omitted.

Newport Monmouthshire Hebrew Congregation was founded in 1859 by orthodox Jews meeting at a temporary synagogue in Llanarth Street. A synagogue at Francis Street was opened in 1869 and consecrated by the Chief Rabbi Dr Herman Adler in 1871. In 1934 the congregation moved to the Nathan Harris Memorial Hall in Queen's Hill which was converted to a synagogue. In 1997 this synagogue was closed, and the congregation moved to the Prayer House by the Jewish Burial Ground on Risca Road. Within 20 years the congregation had dwindled to a few members able to attend and this too had ceased to hold services.

Sources:

"History of our Shul. The First Hundred Years", published by Newport Congregation in 1959;

Oral history interviews with members of the Newport (MON) Hebrew Congregation, recorded in 2018 by JHASW.

Depository: Gwent Archives.

• http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk (link opens in new window)