Editing Karlsruhe (section)

=== Karlsruhe and the Shoah ===
On 28 October 1938, all Jewish men of Polish extraction were expelled to the Polish border, their families joining them later and most ultimately perishing in the ghettoes and concentration camps. On [[Kristallnacht]] (9–10 November 1938), the Adass Jeshurun synagogue was burned to the ground, the main synagogue was damaged, and Jewish men were taken to the Dachau concentration camp after being beaten and tormented. Deportations commenced on 22 October 1940, when 893 Jews were loaded onto trains for the three-day journey to the [[Gurs internment camp|Gurs concentration camp]] in France. Another 387 were deported in from 1942 to 1945 to lzbica in the Lublin district (Poland), Theresienstadt, and Auschwitz. Of the 1,280 Jews deported directly from Karlsruhe, 1,175 perished. Another 138 perished after deportation from other German cities or occupied Europe. In all, 1,421 of Karlsruhe's Jews died during the [[The Holocaust|Shoah]]. A new community was formed after the war by surviving former residents, with a new synagogue erected in 1971. It numbered 359 in 1980.<ref name="Yad Vashem - Request Rejected"/>