A German edition of the work written by Heiden in 1939, which he entitled "Nächtlicher Eid" (the manuscript is now in the Zürich Central Library). The book was first published in English translation as "The New Inquisition", and followed by French and Swedish translations, all in the same year - 1939. This is the first German edition. It contains the text of the manuscript (pp. 7-106), annotations ...

Correspondence and identity documents

1. Auflage. 71 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Lit.opg. - Index. 159 p. ; 22 cm.

Contains pages 1 and 2 from the November 12, 1938, issue of the Danish newspaper, "Politiken." The articles relate to the events surrounding Kristallnacht. English translations accompany the newspaper.

Testimony, typescript, 7 pages, written in 1995. Describes childhood in Hamburg, Kristallnacht and his subsequent arrest and internment at Sachsenhausen, emigration to England and then to the United States.

The collection consists of artifacts from the Main Synagogue of Mainz, Germany, which was desecrated during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938.

Charlotte Alexander (1910-1999?, née Lichtendorf) was born on 22 January 1910 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany to Regina and Emmanuel Lichtendorf. She had one brother. Her parents owned a store in in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. She married Herbert Alexander (1902-1946) in 1937 in Germany and they lived in Leipzig. During Kristallnacht Herbert was arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration ...

The Heinrich Stern collection contains primarily immigration documents related to Heinrich and Charlotte Stern. Heinrich was a lawyer who was arrested on Kristallnacht and sent to Buchenwald. He was released after his wife obtained travel permits, and the couple immigrated to Bolivia, where they lived until they moved to the United States in 1944. Documents include visa applications, identity cards, ...

Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war correspondence sent to and from Julius Sommer of Frankfurt, Germany, as well as Sommer's own wartime reflections of his own experiences. Includes letters written to his son Richard in the United States and son Alfred in London, his reflections on the British consular officer, Smallbones, who assisted Jews in Frankfurt in the wake of Kristallnacht, including ...

443 S. Ill., Kt. 25 cm

Contains information about the experiences of Lore Metzger during Kristallnacht and during other episodes of persecution as a young Jew in Nazi Germany.

The Szabo family papers document the Holocaust experiences of the Szabo family of Vienna, Austria, including Viktor Szabo’s imprisonment in Dachau after Kristallnacht, his death in Zasavica in 1941, his daughter Nelly Szabo Ullman’s account of Kristallnacht, and her immigration to the United States in May 1939. Material related to Nelly Szabo Ullman consists of a handwritten account in German of the ...

The Weinmann family papers contains primarily financial and immigration papers for Gustav Weinmann, and documents relating to his efforts to escape Vienna, Austria. The financial documents cover primarily restitution and transfers of money. This includes attempts to transfer funds, collect pensions, and other efforts to receive money owed. Also included are tax documents concerning the Jewish “Atonement ...

Original typescript account of arrest in Vienna and incarceration in Dachau concentration camp in the immediate aftermath of Kristallnacht and other related papers

47 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Consists of one photocopied document, 9 pages, describing the author's arrest and detainment in the Buchenwald concentration camp after the Kristallnacht mass arrests in November 1938. The document is unsigned and undated.

The collection consists of four issues of the New York Times daily newpaper, published the week of Kristallnacht.

Copyright Holder: Ms. Kim Gerns

The papers of the Bloch family papers include biographical information as well as records documenting claims made by Norbert and Gretel Bloch and Käthe Bremer to receive restitution for losses and damages suffered under the Third Reich. Biographical materials include family trees; birth, marriage, and death certificates; passports and identity cards; travel papers; naturalization papers; school records; ...

Memoirs of a Jew who was born in 1900 in Posen and later lived in Berlin, based on notes written upon his arrival in England in spring 1939. Reichmann, a former trustee of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens, was arrested in the course of the "Kristallnacht" pogrom and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen. His report includes a description of the persecution of German Jewry between ...

The collection consists of a painting, correspondence, documents, and identity cards related to the experiences of Jakob Glantz, originally of Szaszvar, Hungary, who fled Vienna Austria after Kristallnacht with his wife and daughter, to Shanghai, where he passed away in 1948.

Testimony. Typescript, about 75 pages, with index and copied documents, titled "My Memoir," by Bertha Frank Zimmer, dated 1985. Recounts her experiences in Cologne, Germany; her engagement to her husband (postponed after he was arrested following Kristallnacht); escape to Holland; internment at Westerbork after German occupation; and deportation to Theresienstadt.

The collection comprises i.a.the extensive correspondence in connection with the destruction and liquidation of synagogues during the Kristallnacht, 9-10 November 1938, and other antisemitic incidents; documents of the Związek Żydów Polskich (Union of Polish Jews) and other materials (file with the call no. 1963, Wydział I [Department I]).