GB 1556 WL 1375 - Kristallnacht Reports

2 volumes

GB 1556 WL 1375 1938-1939 Collection level 2 volumes Jewish Central Information Office

Kristallnacht, also known as Reichskristallnacht, Reichspogromnacht, Crystal Night and the Night of the Broken Glass, was a pogrom against Jews throughout Germany, 9 Nov-10 Nov 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.

Jewish Central Information Office

A Collection of circa 350 reports on Kristallnacht, and the aftermath, 1938-1939, anonymised to protect the identity of the authors. Collected by the Jewish Central Information Office in the immediate aftermath of the events themselves.

Original order.

Open

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

German and Dutch

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

NOVEMBER POGROM: COPY PRESS CUTTINGS, 1938 (ref:1371)

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.

March 2008 Antisemitism Europe European history German history Germany Human rights violations Jewish Central Information Office Jews National history Nazism Persecution Pogroms Political doctrines Racial discrimination Religious groups SA x Sturmabteilung SS x Schutzstaffel Third Reich Totalitarianism Western Europe

Jewish Central Information Office

A Collection of circa 350 reports on Kristallnacht, and the aftermath, 1938-1939, anonymised to protect the identity of the authors. Collected by the Jewish Central Information Office in the immediate aftermath of the events themselves.

Original order.

Open

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

• anglais

• latin

German and Dutch

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

NOVEMBER POGROM: COPY PRESS CUTTINGS, 1938 (ref:1371)

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.

• anglais