The Background and Ramifications of 9 November 1938
The employees of our Archive have combed through our archival holdings and assembled materials on various topics related to the violent riots against Jews that took place on 9 and 10 November 1938.
“We were being driven like hunted animals!”
Mendel Max Karp’s lengthy account about his deportation from the German capital on October 28, 1938, during the Polenaktion
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2018
“... or was it the end of the world?”
In a letter, David Fiks records an extensive account of his experiences in Berlin on 9 November 1938 and the days that followed.
Online Feature
2018
The Exclusion of Jewish Children from Public Schools 1938
What an apparently innocuous postcard reveals
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2018
“Travel Toward a Happy Future!”
In reaction to the November Pogroms, the Kindertransport program of 1938–39 rescued ten thousand children from the Nazis’ violent regime.
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2018
“Decisive Defense and Hard Reparations”
The financial punishment of the Jewish populace after Kristallnacht
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2018
9 November 1938/“Kristallnacht”
Nazi Persecution
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Digital presentation of our archive collections on different topics, video projects, and more
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