Beuthen Synagogue was built in 1869 on '' Friedrich-Wilhelm-Ring '' ( now Plac Grunwaldzki ) , in place of an older one . The cornerstone was set on May 25 , 1868 , construction finished on July 2 , 1869 . Max Kopfstein ( 1856 – 1924 ) from Bad Ems became rabbi and religion teacher there in 1889 . Chief Rabbi from 1919 , he participated in the negotiations of the Treaty of Versailles as an expert in matters concerning the Jewish population in Upper Silesia . The synagogue was burned down by Nazi German SS and SA troopers during the Kristallnacht on 9 – 10 November 1938 . On November 7 , 1938 Joseph Goebbels had delivered a fiery antisemitic tirade in Beuthen with a call for vengeance against Jews . They were made to stand for hours in front of their burning Moorish synagogue . Beuthen Jewish Community became the first ever Holocaust transport to be gassed inside " Bunker I " at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp , all murdered on February 15 , 1942 at the onset of the Nazi German Holocaust in Poland . A memorial plaque at the site was erected on November 9 , 2007
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Bytom Synagogue