{"product_id":"the-night-of-broken-glass-9780745650852","title":"The Night of Broken Glass","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An exceptional array of eyewitness accounts ... this fascinating collection honours the Holocaust's victims, as well as the sociologist who preserved their memories.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fantastic asset for Holocaust historiography.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEuropean Review of History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This riveting book prints a collection of 21 eyewitness accounts by German Jews. The value of these testimonies lies above all in their detail and immediacy. Mostly they confirm the picture we already have from other sources, though few are as vivid as these.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Provides heartrending testimony of Nazi racial hatred.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Taken together, these survivors’ voices bring the focus back onto what is essential: human lives, their preservation and loss.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eForward Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"This collection of eyewitness accounts of the end of Jewish life in Nazi Germany\u003cbr\u003eis most valuable as an undergraduate course reading, where its immediacy and\u003cbr\u003epersonal detail can bring home the horrors which preceded the Holocaust.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEuropean History Quarterly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There are few more powerful or moving collections of testimonies from the Jewish victims of the Nazi pogrom of 9-10 November 1938. This is an extraordinary collection that conveys the full extent of Nazi brutality towards Jews even before the 'Final Solution' had begun.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard J Evans, Regius Professor of history at the University of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eCambridge\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eThe Third Reich at War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The testimonies about the pogrom of November 9 and 10, 1938 and its sequels, assembled in this volume, describe what the authors deemed to be the height of Nazi barbarism. In reality, these events were but the faintest of preludes to what was about to happen to the Jews in Germany and in occupied Europe. Nonetheless, these reports carry a poignancy of their own that overwhelmingly evokes the suffocating and terror filled atmosphere of Jewish everyday existence in the Reich during those November days and the immediate pre-war months.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSaul Friedlander, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"What sets this anthology, edited by German sociologist Uta Gerhardt and literary agent Thomas Karlauf, apart from other firsthand accounts is the immediacy of the testimonies. All of the accounts reveal the degree to which their authors were traumatized by their experiences.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eS.Ross Doughty, Ursinus College\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditorial Note and Acknowledgements vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword Saul Friedländer x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction Thomas Karlauf: Thus Ended My Life in Germany' 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I The Terror 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHugo Moses 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSiegfried Merecki 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRudolf Bing 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToni Lessler 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSofoni Herz 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Aralk' 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarie Kahle 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II In The Camps 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKarl E. Schwabe 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGertrud Wickerhauser Lederer 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKarl Rosenthal 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorg Abraham 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHertha Nathorff 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarl Hecht 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eErnst Bellak 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III Before Emigration 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartin Freudenheim 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlice Bärwald 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSiegfried Wolff 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMargarete Neff 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFritz Rodeck 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFritz Goldberg 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHarry Kaufman 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword Uta Gerhardt: Nazi Madness 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 275\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404398109015,"sku":"9780745650852","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745650852.jpg?v=1730486339","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-night-of-broken-glass-9780745650852","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}