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Added: October 22, 2009
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From Booklist
The night of November 9 and 10, 1938, was the date of the infamous Kristallnacht. Lawless mobs throughout Germany and the newly acquired territories of Austria and the Sudetenland attacked Jews in the streets, in their homes, and at their places of work and worship. At least 96 Jews were killed, including 43 women and 13 children, and hundreds were injured. More than 1,300 synagogues were set on fire, almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed, and numerous cemeteries and schools were vandalized. A total of 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Bard begins with a chapter he calls “Warning Signs,” writing that the official persecution of the Jews began in April 1933, when the Nazis initiated a boycott of Jewish businesses. Signs and graffiti warned Germans not to buy from Jews, who were barred from civil service jobs. Later they were stripped of their citizenship and not allowed to marry Aryans. Bard has written the most detailed and thoroughly researched book yet on the events of Kristallnacht. --George Cohen
Review
“The most detailed and thoroughly researched book yet on the events of Kristallnacht.” --Booklist
The night of November 9 and 10, 1938, was the date of the infamous Kristallnacht. Lawless mobs throughout Germany and the newly acquired territories of Austria and the Sudetenland attacked Jews in the streets, in their homes, and at their places of work and worship. At least 96 Jews were killed, including 43 women and 13 children, and hundreds were injured. More than 1,300 synagogues were set on fire, almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed, and numerous cemeteries and schools were vandalized. A total of 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Bard begins with a chapter he calls “Warning Signs,” writing that the official persecution of the Jews began in April 1933, when the Nazis initiated a boycott of Jewish businesses. Signs and graffiti warned Germans not to buy from Jews, who were barred from civil service jobs. Later they were stripped of their citizenship and not allowed to marry Aryans. Bard has written the most detailed and thoroughly researched book yet on the events of Kristallnacht. --George Cohen
Review
“Gripping oral history . . . A searing depiction of the Holocaust’s opening ceremonies.” --Kirkus Reviews
“The further away we get from the years of the Holocaust, the more necessary it is to recount what happened. One of the seminal events in Hitler’s goal to destroy European Jewry was the “Night of Broken Glass” -- Kristallnacht. Mitchell Bard provides a comprehensive and penetrating account that should be read not only as a history of Holocaust, but as a lesson for the future.” --Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League and author of The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control and Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism
“Kristallnacht’s new Book of Lamentations. Mitchell Bard’s 48 Hours of Kristallnacht’s power derives from the stark and vivid words of German Jewish children who, in a single day saw their well-ordered world suddenly destroyed by the Nazis’ brutality and the apathy and silence of neighbors and classmates.”
--Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Weisnthal Center
“The most detailed and thoroughly researched book yet on the events of Kristallnacht.” --Booklist
