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Three actual incidents that occurred during Kristallnacht which support fictional descriptions of Kristallnacht in the writings of Herbert Freeden

Three actual incidents that occurred during Kristallnacht which support fictional descriptions of Kristallnacht in the writings of Herbert Freeden Herbert Freeden was an official of the Keren Kayemet LeIsrael (KKl-Jewish National Fund), a leading figure in the Kulturbund and the author of several books of fiction using actual historical facts and events; three such episodes are presented in his testimony. - The first episode, which appears in his book "Wasser auf Gottes Mühlen" (Water on the Mills of God), tells of a meeting which took place right after the Polenaktion (expulsion of the Polish Jews...

File Number : 234

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, German

Testimony of Rabbi Max Nussbaum, born in Suczawa, Bukovina, 1908, regarding the Gestapo order given to him on his wedding day, 15 July 1939, to leave the Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland (ZVfD -Zionist Federation of Germany) and join the Revisionist movement, 24 May 1956 - Receipt of a summons to appear at the Gestapo office the following day, which was his wedding day, 14 July 1938 [1939 - authenticated elsewhere in the documentation]; discussion with Otto Kuchmann, Director of the Gestapo Department of Jewish Affairs; demand that the witness officially leave the ZVfD (termed by Kuchmann as the...

File Number : 139

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, German

Report prepared by Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri, February 1957, regarding a meeting with Dr. Hans Friedenthal, Executive Chairman of the Zionistische Vereinigung fuer Deutschland (ZVfD -Zionist Federation of Germany), 1936-1938 Dr. Friedenthal was the full-time Executive Chairman of the ZVfD from early 1936, together with Benno Cohn; he was responsible for negotiations, especially with the Gestapo; in the beginning he dealt with Eichmann, later only with Kuchmann; consistant Gestapo support for emigration by the Jews until 1938; Reich Foreign Office (Mr. von Hentig) support for Dr. Friedenthal's foreign travels in...

File Number : 130

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German