The Holocaust: The Night Of Broken Glass

The Holocaust was a harsh time during WWII when Hitler tried to wipe out the Jews. It started with the Nuremburg Laws of 1935 set up by Hitler. These laws stated that all German Jews were no longer citizens of Germany. The second part consists of telling who was Jewish, part Jewish, or Aryan (Rice, 38). After that came the Kristallnacht on November 9th and 10th 0f 1938 in Germany and Austria. It is more commonly known as The Night of Broken Glass. It gets that name because during that night, 7,500 Jewish run and owned shops were looted and there windows were demolished. 119 synagogues set ablaze. 20,000 Jews arrested by local authorities and Nazis. 36 Jews were killed. All of this took place in one night ( Rice, 48 - 49). Then, Hitler ordered …show more content…
She was the youngest of three children. She had a brother that was seven years older than her and a sister five years older than her (Holocaust). She was sent off to boarding school where she did work for the war effort. She planted potatoes, milked cows, worked on farms, etc (Holocaust). After she had been there a while, she got a scholarship to Leeds University (Holocaust). While she went to Leeds, she meet her future husband, Norman Silman. They get married and have two children. They also had 5 grandchildren. Norman died 56 years after their marriage (Holocaust). Now she works for the Leeds based Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association (Holocaust). During her entire life, though she didn’t really experience it, the Holocaust was going on. Jews were deported out of all over Europe. In 1942, more than 300,000 Jews deported from just the Warsaw Ghetto alone (History.com). More than 250,0000 - 375,000 Jews were killed in the death marches (History.com). Jews were being sent to mass killing concentration camps. The top six are, Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, and the biggest, Auschwitz-Birkenau. More than 12,000 Jews were killed at Auschwitz