A synagogue was built in Brieg in 1799 , and a rabbi was first appointed in 1816 . The Jewish population numbered 156 in 1785 ; 376 in 1843 ; 282 in 1913 ; 255 in 1933 ; and 123 in 1939 . In the Kristallnacht pogroms of 1938 the interior of the synagogue was completely demolished and the Torah scrolls publicly burned ; numerous shops were ransacked . The community was not reestablished after the Holocaust
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Kristallnacht
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