All of Beer 's works were seriously damaged during the era of Nazi Germany . The most dramatic vandalism was the torching of the Prinzregentenstrasse synagogue , Berlin-Wilmersdorf , during the so-called '' Kristallnacht '' raids of 9 &ndash; 10 November 1938 . Before he was deported , the Nazis even forced Beer to change the remains of the torched synagogue into a granary . Today , a memorial plaque at Prinzregentenstr . 69 – 70 commemorates the destroyed synagogue . Since 2000 , also some other buildings by Alexander Beer have been restored , mostly with private funding . The initially Jewish home for the elderly ( '' Jüdisches Altersheim '' ) in Berlin-Schmargendorf ( at Berkaer Str . 31 – 35 ) with its large inner courtyard was seized by the SS in 1941 and immediately repurposed as a counter intelligence command center , all remaining inhabitants and staff were deported and murdered . Between 1945 and 1954 , the building was used as British antitank barracks and also as an officer 's casino . A major renovation took place between 1954 and 1956 . After this , the former Jewish community retirement home belonged to the '' Wilmersdorf Hospital '' . After the latter 's closure in 1982 , the Berkaer Str . site was reallocated to the city hospital center '' Max-Bürger-Krankenhaus '' , which was later renamed to '' Max-Bürger-Zentrum MBZ '' . In close administrative relation to the larger geriatric hospital site '' Max-Bürger-Krankenhaus '' at Sophie-Charlotte-Str . ( Berlin-Charlottenburg ) , the Berkaer Str . building by Alexander Beer served as a geriatric hospital until the early 2000s . Following Berlin 's extensive hospital environment reorganisations which went into planning stage in 1998 , the historically preserved site then also became part of Berlin 's communal Vivantes chain ( owned by the federal state of Berlin ) and was again thoroughly modernized between 2009 and 2011 . Today it serves as a geriatric nursing facility , now named '' Vivantes Hauptstadtpflege Haus Wilmersdorf '' ( '' Vivantes Capital City Care , Wilmersdorf site '' )
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Alexander Beer