48 hours of Kristallnacht night of destruction/dawn of the Holocaust : an oral history /
The first book to thoroughly chronicle this pivotal event by presenting a wide array of eyewitness testimony, much of it previously unpublished, and to set the event firmly in historical context.
| Main Author: | Bard, Mitchell Geoffrey, 1959- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Guilford, Conn. :
Lyons Press,
[2008]
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| Physical Description: |
xiv, 240 pages ; 20 cm. |
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| Summary: |
The first book to thoroughly chronicle this pivotal event by presenting a wide array of eyewitness testimony, much of it previously unpublished, and to set the event firmly in historical context. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-235) and index. Warning signs -- A harsh childhood -- Coming of age, and heroes of another age -- Good-bye daddy -- Walking through the looking glass -- Synagogues aflame -- Righteous Germans -- Taking lives -- The road to hell -- Heinrich Müller's orders to all Gestapo offices -- Heydrich's instructions for Kristallnacht -- Estimated number of Jews killed in the final solution -- Partial list of towns in which synagogues were destroyed -- Jewish emigration from the greater Reich (including Austria and Czechoslovakia) -- Shoah Foundation testimonies. The first book to thoroughly chronicle this pivotal event by presenting a wide array of eyewitness testimony, much of it previously unpublished, and to set the event firmly in historical context. |
| Physical Description: |
xiv, 240 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-235) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781599214450 1599214458 |