The Jewish population of Beuthen during the inter-war period was about 3,500 ( according to Mokotov ) or 5,000 according to a former resident , who recalls that approximately 4,000 of them left Beuthen between 1933 and 1939 . In November 1938 ( after 9 November ) Joseph Goebbels delivered a fiery anti-Semitic tirade in Beuthen with a call for vengeance , just after the Kristallnacht ( the Night of Broken Glass ) . The Jews were made to stand for hours in front of their burning synagogue , built in 1869 . During World War II Beuthen 's Jews , numbering at about 1,300 , became the first ever Holocaust transport to be gassed inside " Bunker I " at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp , all murdered on 15 February 1942 at the onset of the Nazi German Holocaust in Poland
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Beuthen Jewish Community