Metadata: Aachen during Kristallnacht: An account
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The Wiener Holocaust Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- The Wiener Holocaust Library
- Postal address:
- 29 Russell SquareLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1B 5DP
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7636 7247
- Web address:
- https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/
- Reference number:
- 1585
- Title:
- Aachen during Kristallnacht: An account
- Title (official language):
- Aachen during Kristallnacht: An account
- Creator/accumulator:
- Prean, Erica, b 1930
- Date(s):
- 2000
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Scope and content:
- Papers comprise an account of Kristallnacht in Aachen, 2000, written years later by Erica Prean, who was 8 years old when the events took place.
- Archival history:
- This account of the anti-Jewish pogrom in Aachen, North Rhine Westfalia, was written by a former resident.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Kristallnacht, also known as Reichskristallnacht, Reichspogromnacht, Crystal Night and the Night of the Broken Glass, was a pogrom against Jews throughout Germany, 9-10 November 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.
- Access points: locations:
- Aachen
- Access points: persons/families:
- Prean, Erica
- Subject terms:
- Pogroms
- Pogroms--Kristallnacht
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/70086
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
- Wiener Library
