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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 9, 19bs the stars and stripes Page 9 Kristal nacht from Page 8 Friedberger anal i and saw the destruction of jewish shops on the Zecil Frankfurt s shopping Comer. In Heidelberg he found a Simitar scene a burned synagogue and Densi act jewish shops on la c Haupts Wrasse. Ii morning hi1. Ino had Hen arrested and. Iilo Tifi with 2,Lino other jews was marched Down Heidel Berg s main Street. Everybody v w us Irnel or newspapers reported it. No one tans in Ilu a Vlin t knew what was happen ing Hviid. Ili inns under 9 years old 50 years ago. Remembers living across Ilic Street from in apartment building in flirt thai housed storm trousers. We saw Thi m through the windows pulling on their uniforms. I really recall no Well. My father opened up the window and filed a. What going on ". The storm trousers  said shouted Back we have to report downtown  jewish citizens. Well throw Ihm  pc ulcer was not jewish but with his father went into in retrospect the night of broken Glass ranks As a Mere dress rehearsal for other bigger horrors that were to come. Downtown flirt to Sec what was going on. It was for sure  and Lumens Rass ithe areas we re most of the jews of the City lived a adar said. The streets were piled with broken Glass glassware and China. The whole town was in an uproar. I recall we were standing and men in uniforms wire running in i h streets. We saw a men throwing things out of windows. Some people were actually throwing this piano out of a  Batter also saw the synagogue flames Licking from its windows there was a me crowd of people standing around i m sure Cili cons of Floc immediate neighbourhood. Bui 1 perceived thai there was no fire department. It was very dark. On the West Side of he cily Friedt Kinmann and her Mother saw red yellow in the  i went with my Mother with our bicycles. We saw that the so nogo Guc was burning. A men had sealed off the area Anit were laughing and singing. The whole population turned out she said. We were there for half an hour asking speaking with people. We were surprised. We fell an Gullich and urge Rich fearful and angry. Lotto Keller was 24 and sitting in the Kitchen of hero Weinfurt Home with her husband of three weeks. He was. Halfway through with a cup of Coffee when they came for him she said. When he came Back after six weeks i hardly recognized  my in Laws had a wholesale retail shop Keller said. In inc Crystal night they smashed even1 single thing. The whole Street was while from flour and Feath. Or pillows. After her husband had been taken away one of the. Brown blurts looked unbelieving by Ai Keller s Blond hair and Blue eyes. Listen. Mrs. Keller she remembers him asking. Are you a with. After Kristal nacht lore Sulzbacher w As one of 10,000 jewish children shipped in England by a Refu gee organisation. Although one of the Lucky  Suli Hacher had to leave her parents behind. Unable to escape her Mother and father stayed in Firth until september 94j, when City archives show that 153 jews were deported by train to the there sign slant concentration Camp in what is now Czecho Slovakia. After the War Aliard scar cd that her parents Hud been in  october 194j, when they made a final trip 10 the Auschwitz a Isth tamp Peter. Ringold saw pogrom might from the outside. His father a i Olish Hurn jew working As a tailor in Frankfurt had enough foresight to move the family to France just after a Kristi boy you of jewish shops began in 1933. What shocked us the most is thai the German population accepted the pogrom night Ringold recalls. Before that we still had some Hope that there would the Shii tured remains of the Syna Souque " file la after the Nail storm troopers had done heir work in i93r. Concentration Camps but survived the a is Inal solution. Curli ditch resides in Frankfurt and writes historical books on the nazi period. Esther by Jurlano once the accordion player at Auschwitz Tours Germany with her group sic by Nschan singing it mix or traditional Jar ish ballads and songs composed in the Gacilos find or Cenor Ilion  Oppenh Cirr managed to leave gc1 Many after spending four weeks in the Dachau concentration Camp. He fled to Switzerland and then England before returning to his native Wieloch shortly after he War. His parents lied to France  father was Mur dered in a nazi death Camp. Llanos Len Der s father too old to fight.,wa� drafted by the German Arn Tyand became an air raid Jirden in part i Dader was 15 when the War ended and has since spent his life working with the american military Community in his Hometown like the leaders a Ricoul Reinmann was not jewish she spent the War working in her parents Ilo incr shop afterwards she became Active in local politics and n 19s5 Rarric Heinrich Stranka who served As the mayor of fun from 1963 until his death in 1953,in 1939, lotto Keller and her husband got last min Ute visas to the United states where she now has lived for 49 years. I lad her husband not died last year octo Ber would have marked their 50th wedding anniversary. " now an american i Vixen she says inc Only reminder of thai time in Germany aside  on her marriage License is the China cupboard in her new. York apartment that bears the scar made  storm trooper s a on the night of broken Glass. Today i ctr Gingold and his family live in Franl Furt in the apartment of a former is Man what eau to prison for nazi War  Paul ilal1 Wulw Eire Dath Cri in ruth.b4s. C Fri excl sir aka Bis it Lotte Kallur be some kind of resistance to the nazis. We fell the to prom night was the nazi test to see How far they could go without raising the ire of the people. Ency found out they could go. Very  /. Today. So years later. Lore Stilz Bachur has become Lorraine Aliard British Citi in former jewish refugee former British Soldier. As soon As she turned is Aliard became a private in the British army and drove soldiers to anti aircraft guns during bombing raids. She met her future Hus band while doing this and they were married after the War. She changed her name from the German lore to the British Lorraine. ,. Ernil Carlebach a co founder of the Frankfurter Mundschau newspaper spent i years in prison and  
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