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48 Hours of Kristallnacht
Mitchell G. Bard
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Description for 48 Hours of Kristallnacht
Hardback. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Mitchell Bard provides a comprehensive and penetrating account [of the events of that night] 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). Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 139 x 30. Weight in Grams: 420.
On the nights of November 9 and 10, 1938, rampaging mobs throughout Germany and the newly acquired territories of Austria and Sudetenland freely attacked Jews in the street, in their homes and at their places of work and worship. At least 96 Jews were killed and hundreds more injured, as many as 2,000 synagogues were burned, almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed, cemeteries and schools were vandalized, and 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. This pogrom has come to be called Kristallnacht, "the Night of Broken Glass." Although numerous anti-Jewish regulations had been adopted prior to Kristallnacht, ... Read more
On the nights of November 9 and 10, 1938, rampaging mobs throughout Germany and the newly acquired territories of Austria and Sudetenland freely attacked Jews in the street, in their homes and at their places of work and worship. At least 96 Jews were killed and hundreds more injured, as many as 2,000 synagogues were burned, almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed, cemeteries and schools were vandalized, and 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. This pogrom has come to be called Kristallnacht, "the Night of Broken Glass." Although numerous anti-Jewish regulations had been adopted prior to Kristallnacht, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Guilford, United States
ISBN
9781599214450
SKU
V9781599214450
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About Mitchell G. Bard
Dr. Mitchell Bard is the Executive Director of the nonprofit American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise and the director of the Jewish Virtual Library (www.JewishVirtualLibrary.org), the world’s most comprehensive online encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture (which averages nearly 1.5 million visitors per month).
Reviews for 48 Hours of Kristallnacht
“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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more