[3] Goor had a statue of Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol, but it was destroyed in 1787 by royalist Orangists in the defeat of the republican movement.

[citation needed] As antisemitism gripped Nazi Germany in the late 1920s, Goor (like the rest of the Netherlands) saw an influx of Jewish refugees.

On March 24, 1945, Allied bombers hit and damaged the Goor Synagogue which had survived the Nazi occupation as a storehouse.

During the war, nearly the entire Jewish community had been openly murdered or sent to concentration camps where they were killed.

[citation needed] In 1970, the Dutch government erected a national monument in the Joodse gemeenschap, memorializing the Jews whom the Nazis murdered.