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Scope and content: Het levensverhaal van een Duits-joodse jongen die na de Kristallnacht in november 1938 naar Nederland vlucht. 156 p. ; 21 cm.

Claire Welch (née Weinberg) was born on 21 December 1934 in Brake, Germany. Her parents, Berthold Weinberg and Friedericke Gramms married on 21 May 1933. Claire and her family were arrested in Brake during Kristallnacht. Claire and her mother were released after a few hours, and her grandfather after a few days. Her father was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen and released on 14 December 1938. The Weinberg ...

Leo Waldbott (1867-1940) was born on January 28, 1867 in a suburb of Lustadt, Germany to Lazarus and Clara Waldbott (née Neu, d. 1912,). He had two siblings: Sigmund (1865-1950) and Flora (later Flora Leva, 1868-1948). Leo married Hermine Rosenberger (1867-1920) and they had three children: Emil (1891-1972), Elizabeth (1893-1917), and George (1898-1982). Leo’s sons Emil and George both immigrated to ...

Robert H. Harlan (1917-1998) was born in Chicago and raised in Freeport, Illinois. He attended the University of Chicago in 1935 and acquired his A.B. in 1940 and J.D. in 1942. He met his wife, Lois Harlan (1920-2011), at the University. From 1938-1939 Robert Harlan was an exchange student at Philipps-Universitat in Marburg, Germany. Following Kristallnacht, Robert helped his friend Bruno Stern (1880-1957) ...

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.