During the so-called "crystal night”, 8th November 1938, a victorious NAZI mob broke into Max Kahn's house, where they cut off the beard of the widely respected Rabbi, Dr. Moses Kahn, harshly maltreated him and threw him down the staircase. Dr. Kahn with his wife emigration to Palestine in August 1939, where he died on the 2nd January 1946 in extremely poor conditions.