Brief shot of crowds at a swimming pool (see notes about the history of this footage). Title on screen reads: Die Synagoge brennt! 10.11.1938. [The synagogue burns! 11-10-1938]. Footage of the dome of the Bielefeld synagogue on fire interspersed with shots of bystanders watching it burn from open windows and balconies. The dome is consumed until just the frame is visible, then it collapses in on itself. ...

Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Fourth floor (4.23a) - The Night of Broken Glass Fourth floor (4.23b) - The Night of Broken Glass Fourth floor (4.23c) - The Night of Broken Glass Fourth floor (4.23d) - The Night of Broken Glass Second floor (2.09e) - Children: After Liberation Second ...

Photocopy of typescript testimony, 10 pages, in German, entitled "Der 9 Nov. 1938 (die Kristallnacht) in Wien und der 10 Nov. und meine daraus erwachsenen Erlbenisse." The unnamed author is a woman living in Brno, Czechoslovakia, who travels to Vienna to help an elderly rabbi from Austria get out of the country to Palestine, via Italy. She mentions leaving her young son Daniel behind in Brno.

Folder van het programma op 9 november 2013 ter gelegenheid van de 75-jarige herdeniking van de Kristallnacht in Duitsland

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On November 7, 1938, a Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, fatally shot a German diplomat in Paris. Within three days anti Jewish violence erupted throughout Germany, initially incited by local Nazi officials, and ultimately sanctioned by the decisions of Hitler and Goebbels at the pinnacle of the Third Reich. As synagogues burned and Jews were beaten in the streets, police stood aside. Men, women, ...

Contains photocopies of documents featured during a memorial exhibit 1988-1989 relating to Kristallnacht produced by the Staatsarchiv Potsdam. The documents contain information about pogroms, persecution of Jewish business owners, arrests of Jewish merchants, destruction of synagogues, and the shutdown of Jewish-owned factories. Of special interest is a 1934 document concerning the emigration Albert ...

De heer De Vries komt uit een Joods gezin en maakte als jongen mee hoe de bezetter steeds meer vrijheden van de Joden inperkte. Zijn vader werd afgevoerd in 1942 en kort hierna besloot de rest van het gezin onder te duiken, achtereenvolgens in Groningen, Stroobos, Surhuizumermieden, Groninger Opende en Kollum. Hij vertelt over het leven als onderduiker en over de effecten van de periode 1940-1945 op ...

Collectie 270c: Proces Eichmann

Collectie 270c: Proces Eichmann

Collectie 270c: Proces Eichmann

Personal recollection of Kristallnacht in Berlin, Germany, printed in the Chicago Tribune, Sunday magazine.

Collectie 270c: Proces Eichmann

Grynszpan vermoorde in Parijs in 1938 de Duitse ambassadeur. Deze moordaanslag leidde tot de Kristallnacht. Had Grynszpan's moordaanslag politieke of romantische motieven?

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Photocopies of two documents, "Military Government Charge Sheet" regarding the accused in the trial at Dachau, November 1945, and a typescript copy of memo signed by Reinhard Heydrich regarding Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938.

The Ruth Oppenheim memoirs contains a two memoirs. One entitled "The Sewing Kit," relating to experiences in Nazi Germany prior her family's immigration to the United States in 1940, and an article entitled "Kristallnacht: How It Was," which recalls her experience during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938.

Consists of a lecture delivered by Dr. Shmuel Kneller at the Holocaust Studies Centre in Haifa upon the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, November 9, 2008. In the lecture, entitled "Crystal Night in the Heart of a Jewish Child," Dr. Kneller describes his memories of Hitler coming to power, of pre-war antisemitism, and of his experiences in Berlin during Kristallnacht. The lecture, originally given ...

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Consists of one letter, 12 pages, from Gertrude Philipp, of Germany, to the Salberg family in Pennsylvania on August 17, 1939. In the letter, she gives extensive description of her experiences on Kristallnacht and how difficult life had become as a result of the anti-Jewish laws and of popular sentiments.