My father´s imprisonment
the "Kristallnacht"
It was 1938 and conditions in Goch were getting bad, so that my parents wanted to send my sister and I to the Netherlands. My parents made this decision after german SA & SS men had imprisoned my father on 10th of November 1938 and only freed him eighteen hours later. My father was caretaker of the synagogue. We lived in the adjacent building which had been the Jewish school. He had thrown himself on the Torah scrolls – he wanted to stop them being burned – after the Germans had doused them with petrol .
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- "Reichskristallnacht"
ist a term given to the events that happend all over Germany on the 9th
and 10th of Novembe 1938. Nowadays we don´t use the Nazi term anymore.
The event ist called "Reichspogromnacht". As the story is told
from the view of Herbert we use the old term, as Herbet would have used
it.
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Herzogenstraße 8 |
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Elise and Jakob Cohen, parents of
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Margot Cohen |
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Gocher Synagogue |
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Poster for an exhibition about the |