In 1933 , the year when Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seized power in Germany , there were still 30 Jews living in Hennweiler . In the years that followed , though , some of the Jews emigrated in the face of the boycotting of their businesses , the progressive stripping of their rights and repression , all brought about by the Nazis . On the evening after Kristallnacht ( 9 – 10 November 1938 ) , there were excesses in the village at the NSDAP district leader 's urging . In the violence that ensued , the synagogue was desecrated , among other things . The last four Jewish families left Hennweiler in August and September 1939 and moved to Cologne or Nuremberg . The last four members of the Jewish community in Bruschied were deported to the camps in 1942 . According to Yad Vashem ’s lists and information from the work '' Gedenkbuch - Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933 – 1945 '' ( “ Memorial Book – Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 – 1945 ” ) , the following members of Hennweiler 's Jewish community fell victim to the Holocaust ( along with their birth years ) : Likewise , the following members of the outlying community in Bruschied died : In 1985 , in memory of the Jews who were driven out of Hennweiler and murdered , a memorial stone was placed at the municipality 's Christian graveyard . Another was set at the mortuary at the graveyard in Bruschied . A former Jewish inhabitant named Max Sender came back to his home village after 1945 . He was buried at the Jewish graveyard in 1985
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