Community Kristallnacht Observance
featuring testimony from Norbert Strauss
Sunday, November 9 
4 pm

Norbert Strauss was born in 1927 in Bad Homburg, Germany, near Frankfurt. During Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938, Norbert witnessed the burning of synagogues in Frankfurt. He salvaged two small stones from the rubble, which he carried with him. After Kristallnacht, Norbert, his brother Herman, and their mother, Bertha, stayed in Frankfurt while their father, Josef, was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Josef was released after four weeks due to his WWI veteran status and other conditions. He boarded the MS St. Louis for Cuba, but when the ship was turned away, he was sent to a Dutch holding camp and eventually obtained a U.S. visa. Meanwhile, Bertha and her children escaped to Lisbon on Lufthansa Airlines and arrived in New York on January 28, 1941, assisted by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.

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