At the Kristallnacht in 1938 , the synagogue , built in 1870 , was set afire . Numerous shops and apartments of Jewish citizens of Freiburg were devastated and plundered by National Socialists without the intervention of police or fire department . Male , wealthy , Jewish citizens were kidnapped and taken to concentration camps ( in Buchenwald and Dachau ) where they were subjected to forced labor or executed and their money and property stolen . On October 22nd 1940 the remaining Jews of Baden and Pfalz were deported to Camp de Gurs in southern France . One among many collecting points was Annaplatz . So-called ' Stolpersteine ' , tiles with names and dates on them , commemorate the victims of the prosecution of Jews during the Nazi-Era in the city ’s cobble . Journalist Käthe Vordtriede of the Volkswacht even received two Stolpersteine to commemorate her life . The first one was inserted into the ground in front of the Vordtriede-Haus Freiburg in 2006 and the second one in front of the Basler Hof , the regional authorities , in spring 2013 . This was also the seat of the Gestapo until 1941 , where unrelenting people were cruelly interrogated , held prisoner or at worst deported . The only solutions were flight or emigration . The Vordtriede family , however , was lucky and escaped in time
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Freiburg im Breisgau