48 Hours of Kristallnacht: Night of Destruction / Dawn of the Holocaust: An Oral History
- ISBN-10
- 1599219662
- ISBN-13
- 9781599219660
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-07-01
- Publisher
- Lyons Press
- Author
- Mitchell G. Bard
Description
In honor of the seventieth anniversary of the event that ignited the Holocaust, a collection of harrowing eyewitness accounts recalls the events and devastation of Kristallnacht, a brutal November 1938 attack by mobs on Jews throughout Germany and Austria that cost dozens of Jewish lives and left thousands of synagogues, homes, and Jewish businesses in ruins.
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