A several-tonne boulder with a memorial plaque on a Kutno street corner, placed in 1992 on the site of an 18th-century synagogue destroyed by the Germans in 1942 - no trace of the building remains.
The Memorial Stone of the Synagogue is a multi-tonne boulder with a commemorative plaque, placed at the corner of Norberta Barlickiego and Bereka Joselewicza streets in Kutno, at the location where the local synagogue stood until 1942.
The synagogue in Kutno stood on what is now Norberta Barlickiego Street, formerly Senatorska Street. It was built at the end of the 18th century, and construction lasted approximately thirty years due to financial difficulties of the Jewish community. It was a rectangular structure with a late baroque, decorated façade crowned by a moulded gable. The prayer hall was covered by a nine-section barrel vault with cross-ribs, supported on four massive columns, with the bima in the centre and a decorated ark (aron ha-kodesz).
The Germans destroyed the synagogue in 1942. The building was never rebuilt.
In 1992, the Society of Friends of the Kutno Region (Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Ziemi Kutnowskiej) placed a memorial stone with a plaque at the site of the former synagogue, commemorating the German crime against the Jewish population of Kutno and the existence of the synagogue. The plaque on the stone bears the inscription: "In this place stood an eighteenth-century synagogue, destroyed during the Second World War by Germans, from hatred of man towards man and his work". The stone itself, to which the plaque is affixed, is described as a multi-tonne boulder.
The stone lies several hundred metres from the Market Square in Kutno.
On the way, near the square, you can see the neoclassical Town Hall.
Nearby also stands the House of the City Head.
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