Jewish families were resident in Ansbach from at least the end of the 18th century . They set up a Jewish Cemetery in the Ruglaender Strasse , which was vandalised and razed under the Nazi regime in the Kristallnacht . It was repaired in 1946 , but it was damaged several times more . A plaque on the wall of the cemetery commemorates these events . The Jewish Congregation built its synagogue at No 3 Rosenbadstrasse , but it too was damaged by the SA , though it was not burnt down for fear of damaging the neighbouring buildings . It serves today as a " Symbolic House of God " . A plaque in the entrance serves as a memorial to the synagogue and to Jewish residents who were murdered during the Holocaust . In 1940 , at least 500 patients were deported from the Heil - und Pflegeanstalt Ansbach '' Ansbach Medical and Nursing Clinic '' to the extermination facilities Sonnenstein and Hartheim which were disguised as psychiatric institutions , as part of the Action T4 euthanasia action . They were gassed there . At the clinic in Ansbach itself , around 50 intellectually disabled children were injected with the drug Luminal and killed that way . A plaque was erected in their memory in 1988 in the local hospital at No. 38 Feuchtwangerstrasse
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Ansbach