Metadata: Kristallnacht: Press cuttings (some microfilm)
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:
- 1371
- Title:
- Kristallnacht: Press cuttings (some microfilm)
- Title (official language):
- Kristallnacht: Press cuttings (some microfilm)
- Date(s):
- 1938
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 3 files; 3 reels
- Scope and content:
- Press cuttings of British and European press in the immediate aftermath of the November Pogrom, or _Night of Broken Glass_ in Germany, 1938, reporting on the events that occurred and reactions to them.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Unknown
- The November Pogrom, 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.
- Access points: locations:
- Germany
- Subject terms:
- Newspaper clippings
- Pogroms
- Pogroms--Kristallnacht
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/69956
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
- Wiener Library