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This pogrom has come to be called Kristallnacht, \"the Night of Broken Glass.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough numerous anti-Jewish regulations had been adopted prior to Kristallnacht, these measures had only imposed restrictions on German Jews' economic activity and occupational opportunities. Prior to Kristallnacht, the Jews had little reason to believe their physical safety was at risk. That all changed just more than 70 years ago. The events of that night were the beginning of the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is fitting that a book record the events of this seminal historical event on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. This book provides an account of the incidents immediately preceding the attacks on November 9-10, an oral history that provides a minute-by-minute and hour-by-hour account of what happened during the pogroms, and an analysis of the immediate aftermath and why the Holocaust can be dated from this evening.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303444455458,"sku":"","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/91POfeJShGL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1704830752"},{"product_id":"a-bookshop-in-berlin","title":"A Bookshop in Berlin","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrenkel, Françoise\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn “exceptional” (The Wall Street Journal) and “poignant” (The New York Times) book in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite Française and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, the powerful memoir of a fearless Jewish bookseller on a harrowing fight for survival across Nazi-occupied Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1921, Françoise Frenkel—a Jewish woman from Poland—fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin’s first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrançoise’s dream finally shatters on Kristallnacht in November 1938, as hundreds of Jewish shops and businesses are destroyed. La Maison du Livre is miraculously spared, but fear of persecution eventually forces Françoise on a desperate, lonely flight to Paris. When the city is bombed, she seeks refuge across southern France, witnessing countless horrors: children torn from their parents, mothers throwing themselves under buses. Secreted away from one safe house to the next, Françoise survives at the heroic hands of strangers risking their lives to protect her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished quietly in 1945, then rediscovered nearly sixty years later in an attic, A Bookshop in Berlin is a remarkable story of survival and resilience, of human cruelty and human spirit. In the tradition of Suite Française and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, this book is the tale of a fearless woman whose lust for life and literature refuses to leave her, even in her darkest hours.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303444488226,"sku":"","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/81L71ZaTZAL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1704830817"},{"product_id":"kristallnacht","title":"Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction","description":"\u003cp\u003eGilbert, Martin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the early hours of November 10, 1938, Nazi storm troopers and Hitler Youth rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods across Germany, leaving behind them a horrifying trail of terror and destruction. More than a thousand synagogues and many thousands of Jewish shops were destroyed, while thirty thousand Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. Kristallnacht—the Night of Broken Glass—was a decisive stage in the systematic eradication of a people who traced their origins in Germany to Roman times and was a sinister forewarning of the Holocaust.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith rare insight and acumen, Martin Gilbert examines this night and day of terror, presenting readers with a meticulously researched, masterfully written, and eye-opening study of one of the darkest chapters in human history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303455465506,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/71BQfJtn2sL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1707424591"},{"product_id":"before-the-holocaust-antisemitic-violence-and-the-reaction-of-german-elites-and-institutions-during-the-nazi-takeover","title":"Before the Holocaust: Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions During the Nazi Takeover","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeck, Hermann\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the Nazis staged their takeover in 1933, instances of antisemitic violence began to soar.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile previous historical research assumed that this violence happened much later, Hermann Beck counteracts this, drawing on sources from twenty German archives, and focussing on this early violence, and on the reaction of German institutions and the elites who led them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eBefore the Holocaust\u003c\/em\u003e examines the antisemitic violence experienced in this period - from boycotts, violent attacks, robbery, extortion, abductions, and humiliating 'pillory marches', to grievous bodily harm and murder - which has hitherto not been adequately recognized. Beck then analyses the reactions of those institutions that still had the capacity to protest against Nazi attacks and legislative measures - the Protestant Church, the Catholic Church, the bureaucracies, and Hitler's conservative coalition partner, the DNVP - and the mindset of the elites who led them, to determine their various responses to flagrant antisemitic abuses. Individual protests against violent attacks, the April boycott, and Nazi legislative measures were already hazardous in March and April 1933, but established institutions in the German State and society were still able to voice their concerns and raise objections. 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Turned away from establishments he had long patronized, and fearful of being exposed as a Jew despite his Aryan looks, he boards a train. And then another. And another . . . until his flight becomes a frantic odyssey across Germany, as he searches first for information, then for help, and finally for escape. Taut, immediate, infused with acerbic Kafkaesque humor, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Passenger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an indelible portrait of a man and a society careening out of control.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-three-year-old Ulrich Boschwitz wrote \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Passenger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e at breakneck speed in 1938, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, and his prose flies at the same pace. Long considered lost, the original manuscript was only recently discovered in the German archives and has now been published throughout the world and universally hailed as a masterpiece.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42962122244130,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/81Eq_O9pqDL._SL1500.jpg?v=1722436216"},{"product_id":"what-i-saw-reports-from-berlin-1920-1933","title":"What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoseph Roth (Author), Michael Hofmann (Translator, Introduction)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat I Saw\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat I Saw\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e introduces a new generation to the genius of this tortured author with its \"nonstop brilliance, irresistible charm and continuing relevance\" (Jeffrey Eugenides, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). As if anticipating Christopher Isherwood, the book re-creates the tragicomic world of 1920s Berlin as seen by its greatest journalistic eyewitness. In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic. He produced a series of impressionistic and political essays that influenced an entire generation of writers, including Thomas Mann and the young Christopher Isherwood. Translated and collected here for the first time, these pieces record the violent social and political paroxysms that constantly threatened to undo the fragile democracy that was the Weimar Republic. Roth, like no other German writer of his time, ventured beyond Berlin's official veneer to the heart of the city, chronicling the lives of its forgotten inhabitants: the war cripples, the Jewish immigrants from the Pale, the criminals, the bathhouse denizens, and the nameless dead who filled the morgues. Warning early on of the dangers posed by the Nazis, Roth evoked a landscape of moral bankruptcy and debauched beauty―a memorable portrait of a city and a time of commingled hope and chaos. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat I Saw\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, like no other existing work, records the violent social and political paroxysms that compromised and ultimately destroyed the precarious democracy that was the Weimar Republic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43744877871138,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/71UtkPOweuL._SL1200.jpg?v=1744818013"}],"url":"https:\/\/vaholocaust.myshopify.com\/collections\/pre-holocaust.oembed","provider":"Virginia Holocaust Museum Shop \u0026 Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}