On the night of November 9th to 10th, 1938, SA troops and members of the SS organized violent attacks on the Jewish population.
In Kahla, two Jewish families were affected; from one day to the next they were dispossessed, ostracized and deported.
To commemorate this pogrom night and in memory of the events of that time, several Stolpersteine or stumbling blocks were laid in front of the former homes of the Jewish families Adolf Jacobsthal and Cohn/Tittel in 2016. Both families ran shops in the city center.
Students from the regular school and the Leuchtenburg Gymnasium as well as residents of the city met today for a joint remembrance in front of the families’ former homes. Speeches, cleaning of the stumbling blocks and laying of flowers gave the event a worthy setting, which is particularly important today.
