Synagogue at Bad Mergentheim & Dr. Moses Kahn

During the events of November 9th and 10th, 1938 called the “Kristallnacht” or “Night of Broken Glass” the Nazis destroyed almost all Jewish synagogues in Germany. The only synagogue believed to have escaped the destroying rage of the Nazis is at Bad Mergentheim, in southern Germany, Hermann Fechenbach’s family home town. The Bad Mergentheim synagogue was shut down on the 9th of November, 1939, it was not burned down for fear that the fire would destroy the other building attached to it. Also on that night the very respected rabbi Dr. Moses Kahn, then 67 years old, was almost beaten to death by the Nazi SA at his home.