SUKKAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE, BELGRADE

At the onset of the Second World War Belgrade, the capital of what used to be Yugoslavia, was the home of about 12,000 Jews, of which 80 percent were Sephardi and the rest were Ashkenazi. when the Germans invaded in the Second World War. Jewish properties were stolen. The Ashkenazi synagogue, Sukkat Shalom (built in 1929), was turned into a... brothel. The 1907 Moorish style Sephardi synagogue, Bet Yisrael, was converted into a warehouse for purloined Jewish properties. By 1942 the Jewish community of Belgrade was in effect liquidated. 

After the war whatever remained of the Jewish community after the war was quick to revive itself. The Ashkenazi synagogue was restored and continues to be a place of worship.