Martin Buber , Zionist and honorary professor of religious sciences at the University of Frankfurt am Main , is the best known Jewish son of Heppenheim where he settled in 1916 . In February 1938 , he left the country and emigrated with his family to Jerusalem . On 9 November 1938 , Kristallnacht , Buber 's house was looted and his 3,000-volume library was destroyed . In May 1939 , there were still 37 Jews in Heppenheim , but in September 1942 , the last few Jewish residents were deported . The former synagogue 's location , now a memorial , has stone marking the perimeter of the synagogue destroyed in 1938 . A plaque bears the inscription , '' Hier stand die 1900 erbaute und 1938 zerstörte Synagoge . '' ( “ Site of the synagogue , built in 1900 and destroyed in 1938 . ” ) . An additional plaque with the title '' Im Gedenken an die Ermordeten '' ( “ In memory of the murdered ” ) lists the names of 29 former Heppenheim Jews . The psychiatric institution in Heppenheim took part in the Nazi “ euthanasia ” crimes , and was also a “ collection facility , ” where Jewish psychiatric patients were sent on the way to the gas chamber
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