Featured documents from an exhibition at the Staatarchiv Potsdam in 1988 and 1989 to commemorate the November 1938 pogrom (Kristallnacht)
Extent and Medium
folder
1
1 microfiche,
Archival History
Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv
Acquisition
Copied from the holdings of the Staatsarchiv Potsdam, Germany (East) in August 1989 (today the Brandenburg State Archives, Germany).
Scope and Content
Contains photocopies of documents featured during a memorial exhibit 1988-1989 relating to Kristallnacht produced by the Staatsarchiv Potsdam. The documents contain information about pogroms, persecution of Jewish business owners, arrests of Jewish merchants, destruction of synagogues, and the shutdown of Jewish-owned factories. Of special interest is a 1934 document concerning the emigration Albert and Else Einstein.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is chronological
People
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
- Einstein, Else.
Subjects
- Archives--Germany--Potsdam.
- Synagogues--Germany--Potsdam.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany--Potsdam.
- Kristallnacht, 1938--Germany--Potsdam.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Potsdam.
- Lawyers--Germany--Potsdam.
- Jews--Germany--Potsdam.
- Merchants--Germany--Potsdam.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv