Commemoration Ceremony in Memory of the November Pogroms of 1938
Every year on November 9, Wiesbaden commemorates the victims of Kristallnacht in 1938 at the memorial on Michelsberg—the site of the destroyed synagogue. The memorial service begins on Monday, November 9, at 7 p.m.
The state capital, the Jewish Community, and the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation invite all citizens of Wiesbaden to a memorial service commemorating the November pogroms of 1938 on Monday, November 9, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. at the memorial site on Michelsberg —the site of the destroyed synagogue—to honor the murdered Jewish residents of Wiesbaden and to commemorate the November pogroms and the destruction of the synagogue by the Nazis 88 years ago.
Speech
City Council President Dr. Gerhard Obermayr will deliver the keynote address on behalf of the city of Wiesbaden.
Supporting program
A group of students from the advanced history course at the Carl-von-Ossietzky School and young people from the “Oz” run by the Jewish Community, as well as students from the inter-school upper-level course “Jewish Religion,” will frame the program with their speeches and by lighting memorial candles for the six million victims of the Holocaust.
Reichspogromnacht
Between November 7 and 10, 1938, synagogues were burning all over Germany. Those in Wiesbaden's city center and suburbs were also targeted, looted and destroyed, as were many Jewish institutions, houses and stores. Since 1954, the commemoration of the Reichspogromnacht has been held in Wiesbaden every year on November 9.
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Public transportation: Bus stop Kleinfeldchen/Stadtarchiv, bus lines 4, 17, 23, 24 and 27 and bus stop Künstlerviertel/Stadtarchiv, bus line 18.
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- Monday: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
- Tuesday: 9 am to 4 pm
- Wednesday: 9 am to 6 pm
- Thursday: 12 to 16 o'clock
- Friday: closed