Kristallnacht: List of synagogues destroyed and eyewitness testimonies

Identifier
WL985
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 70878
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Jan 1959
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • The Wiener Holocaust Library

Biographical History

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The bulk of the material in this collection was collected on the initiative of the Wiener Library in 1939. Former rabbis of synagogues in Germany who had managed to escape to Great Britain were asked to supply information on the fate of their synagogues.

Scope and Content

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985/1 consists of responses, most of which are dated November/ December 1939. In addition, there is a list of respondents. The project's results comprised a set of statistics on the fate of Germany's synagogues (985/2). The fate of the synagogues was still a subject of interest in 1959 as evidenced by a copy of a letter on the subject from C. C. Aronsfeld (985/3). 985/2 also contains a list dated 1960.

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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Subjects

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.