After WWII the German population of Jägerndorf was expelled and the building of the synagogue was first used as a warehouse , than as a regional archive . In July 1997 it was damaged by a flood , two years later it was finally returned to the Jewish community in Olomouc ( German : '' Olmütz '' ) with no Jewish community in Krnov ( Jägerndorf ) existing anymore . Between 2003 and 2014 it was thoroughly renovated . Today , credit is given to Franz Irblich to be the savior of the synagogue also by the now Czech town of Krnov . In 1946 , Irblich had received a 10 years sentence by a Czechoslovak extraordinary court after accusations of being a Nazi
1997 it was damaged by a flood
1997 Central European flood
Krnov Synagogue