In 1933 , the year when Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seized power , 24 Jews were still living in Merxheim . In the years that followed , though , all of them moved away or even emigrated in the face of the boycotting of their businesses , the progressive stripping of their rights and repression , all brought about by the Nazis . By early November 1938 , only two were left in the village , but they left after Kristallnacht ( 9 – 10 November 1938 ) . According to the '' Gedenkbuch – Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945 '' ( “ Memorial Book – Victims of the Persecution of the Jews under National Socialist Tyranny ” ) and Yad Vashem , of all Jews who either were born in Merxheim or lived there for a long time , 17 died in the time of the Third Reich ( birthdates in brackets ) : Like many places in the region , Merxheim can claim to have had its dealings with the notorious outlaw Schinderhannes ( or Johannes Bückler , to use his true name ) . In 1801 , he and some of his accomplices committed a home invasion in Merxheim . The victims were the village 's only Jewish inhabitants , the Family Bär . Their house was pillaged and the household head Jacob Bär was badly injured
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Merxheim