On the night of 8 to 9 November 1938 , during the November pogroms hundreds of Frankfurt 's Jewish citizens were driven across the city centre to the Festhalle and some were seriously mistreated . The noted Frankfurt Opera singer Hans Erl was forced to sing " In Diesen Heil ' gen Hallen " ( " In These Holy Halls " ) . From here , the first mass transports went into the Nazi concentration camps . The Festhalle is thus of considerable relevance for the Holocaust . The Frankfurt physician and Holocaust survivor Dr. Max Kirschner describes the deportation in his memoirs . Since 1991 , a plaque displayed in the rotunda bears remembrance of this dark spot in history
November pogroms
Kristallnacht
Festhalle Frankfurt