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Praise for The Night of Broken Glass

‘The testimonies about the pogrom of November 9 and 10, 1938 and its sequels, assembled in this volume, describe what the authors deemed to be the height of Nazi barbarism. In reality, these events were but the faintest of preludes to what was about to happen to the Jews in Germany and in occupied Europe. Nonetheless, these reports carry a poignancy of their own that overwhelmingly evokes the suffocating and terror filled atmosphere of Jewish everyday existence in the Reich during those November days and the immediate pre-war months.’

Saul Friedlander, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

‘This riveting book prints a collection of 21 eyewitness accounts by German Jews of the terrible night of 9 November 1938, when, on the orders of Adolf Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, bands of stormtroopers all over Germany and Austria burned down more than 1,000 synagogues and smashed up some 7,500 Jewishowned shops. The value of these testimonies lies above all in their detail and immediacy. Mostly they confirm the picture we already have from other sources, though few are as vivid as these.’

The Guardian

‘An exceptional array of eyewitness accounts ... this fascinating collection honours the Holocaust’s victims, as well as the sociologist who preserved their memories.’

Times Literary Supplement

‘This selection of poignant eyewitness accounts of Kristallnacht, originally collected by the Harvard sociologist Edward Hartshorne in 1939 and subsequently forgotten, provide a unique and harrowing insight into the terrible events of the night of 9 November 1938.’

The International History Review

‘Taken together, these survivors’ voices bring the focus back onto what is essential: human lives, their preservation and loss.’

Forward Magazine

‘heartrending testimony of Nazi racial hatred.’

Tribune