The first documentation of Jews in town dates to 1301 . During the Black Death in 1349 , the community was annihilated after a false blood libel , accusing the town Jews of poisoning the town wells . After the pogrom , Jews got back to the town until 1424 , when they were expelled once again . In 1550 , the community reopened with a cemetery . In 1750 , a Jew owned a textile factory in town , employing about 330 weavers . The Synagogue , built in 1758 , was destroyed in November 1938 , on Kristallnacht . In 1825 , 14 % of the town population was Jewish , ( 438 individuals ) , though in 1933 this number had declined to 231 . On October 22 , 1940 , the town 's last 34 Jews who did not flee to nearby France or other places , were deported to Gurs internment camp , a transit camp in the South of France . In 1967 , the town 's sole Jewish survivor was a woman who attended the two Jewish cemeteries . A website , dedicated to the town 's Jewish history , commemorates the names of Jewish victims during World War II who used to live in town , as also personal stories of survivors and their children . A Jewish survivor who lived in town named Louis Dreyfuss , gave a report on his biography on some cases . The Jewish community of pre-war Breisach maintains a documentary website
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Breisach