Kristallnacht and German Jewry

Includes links to a variety of resources on the 1938 pogroms.

Lists links to information and internet resources related to Kristallnacht.

Buchenwald was the second concentration camp opened in 1937. This webpage gives a brief history.

Website for the Dachau Memorial Site. Dachau was the first concentration camp established by the Nazis in 1933.

Includes descriptions of many of the concentration camps.

Aufbau began publication in 1934 as a newsletter for the German-Jewish Club of New York. By then the club was ten years old and its membership was steadily increasing. In the beginning, the newspaper contained mostly news about club activities, articles about Jewish culture and contemporary events, and helpful facts for Jewish refugees. Overtime, its articles focused more and more on international events and especially the treatment of Jews in Germany. Aufbau became one of the leading anti-Nazi publications of the German press in exile. Many well-known personalities wrote for the publication, including Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, and Stefan Zweig.

Includes files from almost 400 German Jewish Communities, including more than 1000 files from Berlin (1827-1945), and inventories of Jewish organizations, smaller estates, and collections.

The virtual archive Compact Memory provides free access to 118 German Jewish periodicals with 700000 digitized pages.

Access to Jewish heritage content., postcards and museum objects; 23,000 sound files of music and oral history; 2,000 moving image files.

The Leo Baeck Institute’s collections include more than 10,000 archival records, 2,000 memoirs, 25,000 photographs, 80,000 books and 1,600 periodicals.

Articles describing antisemitic measures carried out by the Nazis after they seized power

Includes statistics on destinations of emigre German Jews and examples of passport documentation.

Includes articles covering all aspects of the Holocaust.

Contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations from the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, published between 1901-1906.

German-Jewish Genealogy journal published by the Leo Baeck Institute.

Family History and Jewish Genealogy resources of relevance to anyone with a German Jewish background.

Searches multiple databases with over 350,000 entries, referring to individuals living in Germany and former German regions.

Short history of German Jewry going back to the 4th Century.

History of German Jewry leading up to the Holocaust.

Explains how Nazi policies led to the persecution and isolation of the German Jewish community.

History of the Kindertransport rescue of over 10,000 German Jewish children.

Exhibit and photos detailing the activities of Jewish relief organizations in Berlin during the latter half of the 1930s.

Exhibit and photos detailing the activities of Jewish relief organizations in Berlin during the latter half of the 1930s.

This Library which was created by the Jewish Community of Berlin was established in 1898 and was closed by the Nazis. The Library was reconstructed in 1959.

The on-line catalog of the European Network of Judaica and Hebraica Libraries is one of the foremost bibliographic sources in the field of Jewish culture. It contains over 200,000 entries, representing the holdings of the member libraries.

Traces the history of Jewish women in Germany from 1750 till after World War II.

Article opens with a brief historical overview of Jewish women before the war, followed by several contemporary voices

The article relates the experiences of German Jewish women living through the perilous years leading up to the Holocaust.

Explores the modern religious and cultural life of German Jews.

Biography of Rabbi Hirsch and his contributions to the Orthodox movement in Germany.

Profile of Rabbi Zechariah Frankel, the founder of Conservative Judaism.

Includes a description of the early history of Reform Judaism in Germany.