With the rise of Hitler and National Socialism in 1933 , Jewish life in Gelsenkirchen was still relatively quiet . In August 1938 , 160 Jewish businesses were still open in town . In October 1938 , though , an official ban restricted these businesses and all Jewish doctors became unemployed . In the same month , the Jewish community of town was expelled . Between 1937 and 1939 , the Jewish population of Gelsenkirchen dropped from 1,600 to 1,000 . During Kristallnacht , the town synagogue was destroyed , after two thirds of the town 's Jewish population had already left . On 27 January 1942 , 350 among the 500 remaining Jews in town were deported to the Riga Ghetto ; later , the last remaining Jews were deported to Warsaw and Theresienstadt concentration camp
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Gelsenkirchen