Kristallnacht in Words and Photographs

Paul Rona
Paul Rona's father, a former soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army, ran a small store. "My father and I were arrested in our apartment and immediately taken away. We heard that the SA-men wreaked havoc in our apartment afterwards, but the new owner put a stop to the destruction because he wanted our things. He kicked out my mother. She left the apartment with two suitcases and went to the Markstein family at Brigittenauer Lände.

My father and I were locked up in the school on Karajangasse, where I had attended grammar school. In the evening they assigned us letters: A, B, C, D. My father was 'D' and I was 'A.' We could have easily swapped. 'D' stood for Dachau, but we didn't know that."

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