Press Photograph: Witnessing Kristallnacht in Berlin

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.52

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Date

12-13-1938

Files

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Description

Front: An image of ransacked Jewish-owned stores in Berlin. Verso: Typewritten information about the image. Back: "Most Important News Pictures of '38"

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Acme wire photo with following information verso: “A street scene in Berlin showing the shattered fronts of Jewish-owned stores, the result of anti-Jewish demonstrations following the slaying of Ernst vom Rath in Germany's Paris embassy. Vom Rath's slayer was a Jewish youth. 12-13-1938." The image seems to capture a range of moods of the onlookers, from incredulity to exultation to disengagement.

Dimensions

6 1/2 x 9 1/4"

Keywords

Antisemitic, Berlin, Ernest Vom Rath, Acme Newspictures Inc.

Subcollection

Early, Polenaktion

Recommended Citation

"Press Photograph: Witnessing Kristallnacht in Berlin" (1938). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.52.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/13