Among the tens of thousands of Central European German-speakers who came to America in the 1840s and 50s were 15 Jews from Unsleben who founded the Jewish community in Cleveland , Ohio . During the time of Nazi Germany , the local Jewish families were prosecuted , forced to emigrate or murdered . Their synagogue , located near the Schlossgasse/Kemenate , was defiled during the November Pogromes of 1938 . The building , nowadays " house of the countrywoman " , has a commemorative plaque to remind its original purpose
November Pogromes
Kristallnacht
Unsleben