GB 1556 WL 1585 - Aachen during Kristallnacht: An account

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This account of the anti-Jewish pogrom in Aachen, North Rhine Westfalia, was written by a former resident.

GB 1556 WL 1585 2000 Collection level (fonds) 1 file Prean , Erica , b 1930

Kristallnacht, also known as Reichskristallnacht, Reichspogromnacht, Crystal Night and the Night of the Broken Glass, was a pogrom against Jews throughout Germany, 9-10 November 1938. Jewish homes along with 8,000 Jewish shops were ransacked in numerous German cities, towns and villages as civilians and both the SA (Sturmabteilung) and the SS (Schutzstaffel) destroyed buildings with sledgehammers, leaving the streets covered in shards of glass from broken windows, the origin of the name 'Night of Broken Glass'. Jews were beaten to death, 30,000 Jewish men were taken to concentration camps and 1,668 synagogues ransacked, with 267 set on fire.

This account of the anti-Jewish pogrom in Aachen, North Rhine Westfalia, was written by a former resident.

Deposited by Erica Prean.

Papers comprise an account of Kristallnacht in Aachen, 2000, written years later by Erica Prean, who was 8 years old when the events took place.

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Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

April 2008 Aachen Antisemitism Documents Ethnic conflicts Europe Germany Information sources Interethnic relations Memoirs Nazism Political doctrines Prean , Erica , b 1930 Racial discrimination Third Reich Totalitarianism Western Europe Primary documents

Deposited by Erica Prean.

Papers comprise an account of Kristallnacht in Aachen, 2000, written years later by Erica Prean, who was 8 years old when the events took place.

1 item.

Open

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

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• Latijn

English

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• Engels