By 1933 , the number of Jews in Speyer had fallen to 269 , and by the time their synagogue was torched in the '' ' November pogroms of 1938 ' '' ( Kristallnacht ) there were only 81 left . In the night of 9 November , SA and SS troops looted the synagogue on Heydenreichstraße , taking away the library , precious cloths , carpets and ritual utensils and setting the building alight . The firemen only kept an eye on the neighbouring buildings . Along with the synagogue the Jews also lost their school . The same night the Jewish cemetery was also vandalized . The debris of the synagogue was removed in the following days , which was billed to the Jewish community . A member of the community supplied a prayer room in his house on Herdstraße . The city later used this house as a storage for furniture left behind by deported Jews
November pogroms of 1938
Kristallnacht
History of the Jews in Speyer