Central Florida’s Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center is honored to welcome a rare and profoundly meaningful artifact to its collection: an 800-pound Ten Commandments tablet from Egelsbach, Germany. This remarkable relic survived the devastation of Kristallnacht, the night of November 9, 1938, when Nazi-led violence against Jewish communities swept across Germany, marking the beginning of a dark era. Nearly 90 years later, this tablet—once part of the Egelsbach synagogue—stands as a testament to resilience and faith. The journey of this tablet to the Holocaust Center is one of survival, rediscovery, and dedication. During Kristallnacht, the synagogue in Egelsbach was destroyed, but this tablet miraculously remained intact, hidden away in nearby brush for decades. When members of the Simon family, descendants of Egelsbach’s Jewish community, visited in 1996, they rediscovered the stone that had once graced their synagogue.
