…Abraham Grossman discusses his childhood in Güstrow, Germany; the antisemitism he endured while in school; the restrictions placed on Jews under the…

… persecution of Jews living in Berlin, Germany, just prior to World War II. The greater portion of the testimony is devoted to the graphic description of Gundel…

… descriptions of the Nazi rise to power in 1933, persecution of German Jews, the aftermath of Kristallnacht in which the writer went into hiding under protection…

… consular officer, Smallbones, who assisted Jews in Frankfurt in the wake of Kristallnacht, including Sommer, who immigrated to the United States in February…

… of the Nazi presence in Germany; his family’s interactions with non-Jews; his Orthodox Jewish education; his family’s move when he was six years old to…

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… small village, near Deutsch Krone. We were the only Jews in that particular town. And my family had lived around that area for at least 350 years…

… small network to bring his family and other Jews to safety by using financial connections with underground and Swiss Zionist groups; being caught and sent…

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…, “Mom, it's not because they are Jews, they probably don't even know that, it's because they are communists!” Of course, he was also against the…

… started a campaign against Jews; the arrest of his father by the Gestapo in October 1938; his admiration for his mother’s courage in approaching the police…

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… assumed power, the campaign against the Jews was started in earnest. And well, first of all, you were insulted on the streets. You were spat at. If anybody…

… antisemitism in 1933; the expulsion of Jews from school; receiving both sympathy and harassment from non-Jewish classmates; her pride in being Jewish; the…

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… school in my town. 97 00:05:25,300 --> 00:05:31,500 And when I was 12, they threw me out. 98 00:05:31,500 --> 00:05:34,350 They kicked all of the Jews out…

… Jewish homes, and warning townspeople to not buy from or interact with Jews; Jewish businesses being taken over by Aryans; realizing his schooling was over…

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… which were Jews. You would have considered mine an average middle class family of three children. I had a brother and a sister who were older than I, and…

…’s service in WWI; her father being forced to retire in 1935; anti-Jewish laws; Jews being forced to live in crowded houses; suffering as a child in those…

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… 15, 1932, in Hanover, Germany. This Jewish community was active and thriving. Her parents were very involved in it. They were traditional Jews…

… German Jews after his experiences on Kristallnacht; his family being forced to sell their house and considering immigration; he and his mother getting a…

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… growing up as a Jew and in a European country. In a country that has seen anti- Semitism forever. So it was all part of it, and you learn it, and I was not…

…Willei Nowak, born August 1, 1908 in Berlin, Germany, describes his family of liberal, Austrian Jews; his father, who owned a tobacco factory in…

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… Hol Arch D 810.J4 G7 no. 81 SUMMARY Willie Nowak was born August 1, 1908 in Berlin, to a family of libera1 Austrian Jews. His father owned a tobacco…

…-Jews of Essen did not like her family because her father was a rabbi; developing a dislike of organized religion after living with her father; moving…

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… junior rabbi then -- the senior rabbi and the congregation about the role of the Polish Jews in Esson in that time and the senior rabbi was saying that the…

…’s history, his education, and how their life as Jews changed and became increasingly restricted after 1935; non-Jewish relatives broke off contact until after…

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… education and how their life as Jews changed and became increasingly restricted after 1935. Non-Jewish relatives broke off contact until after the war ended…

…’s statements about Jews on the radio; how life changed for Jews beginning in 1937; the events of Kristallnacht and the deportation of his father to Buchenwald…

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… way. OK. Was your father's clientele of a particular demographic? That is, were they mostly Jews? Were they mostly educated? Were they mostly working…

… Jew in the class throughout most of my school years; his non-Jewish friends, who began disassociating with his family after 1933; Jewish life in Hanover…

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… physician - a general practitioner. I would say I had quite a normal childhood - I had one younger brother. School was a little different; I was the only Jew…

… sister getting on a transport to England; wearing the yellow star and the restrictions placed on Jews; going to Hungary, where he was considered a legal…

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… have one Jew that is different, and that he can truly say, “Some of my best friends are Jews.’ Maybe this is where the saying originated. I don’t know…

… include his impressions of the treatment of Jews during Kristallnacht. In a separate typed document, Robert recorded these same events in greater detail…

… father’s factory; how Jews were forbidden from going to concerts or to the opera; how the synagogue was burned during Kristallnacht; how the Nazis…

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…, when Hitler's edict came out and nobody could visit the Jews anymore, no doctors or nurses, the nuns would come at night and bring food to the Jews who…

…, universities, and professions to Jews in the late 1930s; her time in Dortmund, Germany, working as a dressmaker; Kristallnacht; the conversion of her house to a…

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…,620 --> 00:01:20,160 that was taken by the police, because all Jews 20 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,630 had to have a Kennkarte. 21 00:01:23,630 --> 00:01:28…