FORMER SYNAGOGUE, YAMBOL

Not far from the border with Turkey, Yambol used to be a thriving Jewish centre. Now there are only a few Jewish families left. The town had a large synagogue which ceased being a house of prayer when most of the town's Jews left in the 1940s. For many years it was cordoned off with a barbed-wire fence, right in the middle of town, because it was used as a munitions de pot by the Warsaw Pact military. It was reconstructed as the city art gallery in the late 1970s, and it continues to operate as such under the name Georges Papazoff Art Gallery. No indication of its Jewish past survives. 

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