Kristallnacht Reports
Extent and Medium
2 volumes
Creator(s)
- Jewish Central Information Office
Biographical History
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.
Acquisition
Jewish Central Information Office
Scope and Content
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.
System of Arrangement
Original order.
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Finding Aids
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
Process Info
Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Subjects
- Totalitarianism
- Third Reich
- Religious groups
- Racial discrimination
- German history
- Human rights violations
- Jews
- National history
- Nazism
- Persecution
- Pogroms
- Political doctrines
- Antisemitism
- European history
Places
- Germany,