On Kristallnacht (9–10 November 1938), Brownshirts from Altenglan and Theisbergstegen, reinforced by a few NSDAP followers from Jettenbach and Brownshirts from Kusel who happened to be going about in the district destroying Jewish property, thronged into these two men's houses and laid them waste. Shortly thereafter, the village's three remaining Jewish residents, the widower Isidor Rothschild, his brother Sigmund and Sigmund's wife Blondine were taken away to the camps. The last two named are believed to have died at Theresienstadt. Two of their four daughters, too, were murdered in the camps. The other two, and also Isidor's son, survived the Holocaust and later lived in the United States.