Kristallnacht in Words and Photographs

Lilli Tauber
"It was about 10 AM when someone came into the classroom and started whispering into our teacher's ear. Afterwards the teacher told us to go home, saying that something was going on. My parents were surprised that I returned from school so early. At about 11 AM the doorbell rang and the Gestapo arrested my father. They simply took him away.

When night was falling they led us into the synagogue. The floors were covered with hay, and they gave us Torah mantles to cover ourselves up. We were locked in for three days. The synagogue had a yard with an iron gate facing the street. There were people outside the gate watching, and people from Wiener Neustadt looked on with amusement as we Jewish children had to run around in circles."

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