Cine Rex
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"On 14 April 1941, after watching the German propaganda film Der Ewige Jude in Cine Rex, Flemish paramilitaries from the Volksverwering, VNV and Algemeene-SS Vlaanderen began a pogrom in the city of Antwerp. The mob, armed with iron bars, attacked and burned two synagogues in the city and threw the Torah scrolls onto the street. They then attacked the home of Markus Rottenburg, the town's chief rabbi. The police and fire brigade were summoned, but they were forbidden to intervene by the German authorities."--Sholem Stein |
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Cine Rex was a cinema located at De Keyserlei 15 in Antwerp, Belgium. It opened in 1935 and was designed by Leon Stynen, a Belgian architect, modeled after large American movie theatres.
The theatre was re-built in 1947 but closed in 1993 and was demolished in 1995.
