During the '' Kristallnacht '' on November 9 , 1938 , Nazis burned down synagogues at two locations in the city . The next day , they started the systematic deportation of Jews , sending 150 to Dachau concentration camp . On October 22 , 1940 , during the " Wagner Buerckel event " , the Nazis deported 6000 local Jews , including 281 from Heidelberg , to Camp Gurs concentration camp in France . Within a few months , as many as 1000 of them ( 201 from Heidelberg ) died of hunger and disease . Among the deportees from Heidelberg , the poet Alfred Mombert ( 1872 – 1942 ) left the camp in April 1941 thanks to the Swiss poet Hans Reinhart . From 1942 , the deportees who had survived internment in Gurs were deported to Eastern Europe , where most of them were murdered
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
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