Night of Broken Glass
Im Reich der Nummern. Wo die Männer keine Namen haben.
Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen
Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen
Straße der Nationen 22, Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany
“In the Country of Numbers. Where the Men have no Names” tells the story of the detention and exile of November pogrom prisoners in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the basis of twelve individual destinies. One of those individuals is Fritz Ascher. The interviews presented in the exhibition with children and grandchildren of the persecuted as well as family biographical photos and documents are new material first shown in Germany, which was researched in the USA, Great Britain and Israel. More than 6,300 Jewish men were brought to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp after the November pogroms in 1938. After a few weeks, the vast majority was set free, with the condition to emigrate immediately from Germany. Many have therefore [...]