On 22 October 1940 , the Nazi Gauleiter of Baden , Robert Heinrich Wagner , ordered the deportation of all of Baden 's and 350 of Freiburg 's Jewish population . They were deported to Camp Gurs in the south of France , where many died . On 18 July 1942 , the remaining Baden and Freiburg Jews were transferred to Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland , where almost all were murdered . A living memorial has been created in the form of the ' footprint ' in marble on the site of the city 's original synagogue , which was burned down by the Nazis on 9 November 1938 , during the pogrom known as '' Kristallnacht '' . The memorial is a children 's paddling pool and contains a bronze plaque commemorating the original building and the Jewish community which perished . The pavements of Freiburg carry memorials to individual victims , in the form of brass plates outside their former residences
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Freiburg im Breisgau