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02652aam a2200313 4500 001 A5FF7612394611EC819AF46C44ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211030010013 008 210107s2021 xx 0|| 0 eng d 020 $a 9780745650852 020 $a 0745650856 035 $a (OCoLC)1229089775 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d NLMVD $d IOU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 082 04 $a 940.531842 $2 23 100 1 $a Gerhardt, Uta, $d 1938- $e editor. 245 10 $a Night of broken glass : $b eyewitness accounts of kristallnacht / edited by Uta Gerhardt and Thomas Karlauf ; translated [from German] by Robert Simmons and Nick Somers ; foreword by Saul FriedlÌnder. 246 30 $a Eyewitness accounts of kristallnacht 250 $a First paperback edition 264 1 $a Cambridge ; $b Polity Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xi, 279 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a November 9th 1938 is widely seen as a violent turning point in Nazi Germany's assault on the Jews. An estimated 400 Jews lost their lives in the anti-Semitic pogrom and more than 30,000 were imprisoned or sent to concentration camps, where many were brutally mistreated. Thousands more fled their homelands in Germany and Austria, shocked by what they had seen, heard and experienced. What they took with them was not only the pain of saying farewell but also the memory of terrible scenes: attacks by mobs of drunken Nazis, public humiliations, burning synagogues, inhuman conditions in overcrowded prison cells and concentration camp barracks. The reactions of neighbours and passersby to these barbarities ranged from sympathy and aid to scorn, mockery, and abuse. In 1939 the Harvard sociologist Edward Hartshorne gathered eyewitness accounts of the Kristallnacht from hundreds of Jews who had fled, but Hartshorne joined the Secret Service shortly afterwards and the accounts he gathered were forgotten - until now. These eyewitness testimonies - published here for the first time with a Foreword by Saul Friedlander, the Pulitzer Prize historian and Holocaust survivor - paint a harrowing picture of everyday violence in one of Europe's darkest moments. This unique and disturbing document will be of great interest to anyone interested in modern history, Nazi Germany and the historical experience of the Jews 650 0 $a Kristallnacht, 1938 $v Personal narratives. 650 0 $a Jews $x History $z Germany $x History $y 20th century $v Sources. 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211030010054.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A5FF7612394611EC819AF46C44ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search