| Title: |
Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction |
| Publishing data: |
HarperCollins UK (30 March 2006); HarperCollins USA (1 June 2006). |
| Summary: |
An account of the devastating attacks on Jews and Jewish property, and the destruction of more than a thousand synagogues in Germany and Austria on 9/10 November 1938, and of the fate of the Jews who witnessed that destruction. A study of the German and Austrian Jewish struggle to emigrate, and the story of those diplomats and other individuals in Germany and outside it who did what they could to help Jews and to facilitate their emigration. Incorporates more than fifty eyewitness accounts that were sent to the author while he was writing the book. |
| Translations: |
Dutch, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Portuguese (Brazil) |
| Notes About This Book: |
Twenty-five maps compiled by the author, including the previously unmapped locations of every synagogue destroyed. Nineteen photographs. Source references at the bottom of each page. Eight pages of sources and bibliography of works cited. Index complied by the author. |
