Thread by @HolocaustUK

We have worked with several Holocaust survivors who witnessed Kristallnacht. Below are some of their testimonies.

Ernest witnessed Kristallnacht. From his bedroom window, he could see the prayer books and Torah scrolls from the synagogue on his road being deliberately burned.

"Life as I had known it, stopped"

Susan Oppenheimer was a Jewish teenager in Nuremberg when Kristallnacht happened. Read her account of Kristallnacht from our 70 Voices resource: 70voices.org.uk/content/day11

Walter Kammerling BEM, who turned 97 this year, witnessed Kristallnacht. His parents decided to send him to Britain on the Kindertransport. Read his testimony here: het.org.uk/survivors-walt…

In this special blog originally to mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, we are privileged to be able to share the memories of Holocaust survivor Freddie Knoller BEM.

Read his words here: het.org.uk/news-and-event…

In 2013, we held a live Twitter Q&A session marking the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht with with Kristallnacht eyewitness and Holocaust survivor Harry Bibring BEM, who passed away last year. You can read a transcript of it here: het.org.uk/component/cont…

You can also listen to Harry Bibring BEM talk about his recollections of Kristallnacht, recorded last year for the Stories from Willesden Lane project, sponsored by The Association of Jewish Refugees
@TheAJR_ vimeo.com/271839218

If you are teaching the Holocaust, we look at Kristallnacht and its aftermath through the words of its victims in our Nazi Persecution of Jews in Germany lesson, available free as part of our Exploring the Holocaust scheme of work: het.org.uk/exploring-the-…