Featured documents from an exhibition at the Staatarchiv Potsdam in 1988 and 1989 to commemorate the November 1938 pogrom (Kristallnacht)

Identifier
irn503700
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1991.A.0057
  • RG-14.007.01
Dates
1 Jan 1933 - 31 Dec 1942
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503700

Extent and Medium

folder

1

1 microfiche,

Archival History

Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv

Acquisition

Copied from the holdings of the Staatsarchiv Potsdam, Germany (East) in August 1989 (today the Brandenburg State Archives, Germany).

Scope and Content

Contains photocopies of documents featured during a memorial exhibit 1988-1989 relating to Kristallnacht produced by the Staatsarchiv Potsdam. The documents contain information about pogroms, persecution of Jewish business owners, arrests of Jewish merchants, destruction of synagogues, and the shutdown of Jewish-owned factories. Of special interest is a 1934 document concerning the emigration Albert and Else Einstein.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is chronological

People

  • Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
  • Einstein, Else.

Subjects

  • Jews--Persecutions--Germany--Potsdam.
  • Kristallnacht, 1938--Germany--Potsdam.
  • Jews--Germany--Potsdam.
  • Synagogues--Germany--Potsdam.
  • Merchants--Germany--Potsdam.
  • Archives--Germany--Potsdam.
  • Lawyers--Germany--Potsdam.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Potsdam.

Genre

  • Document
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