Anonymous eyewitness account of  events during the November Pogrom

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Summary:: This is one of the most horrifying accounts of the night of 9 November 1938, written by the wife of a former Jewish doctor in a German town. The family was visited twice by the SS, the first time by 34, the second time by 7 men who made havoc of everything; they threatened everybody with their pistols whilst they were busy smashing, tearing up and destroying everything. A Jewish couple, owners of a nearby restaurant, to whom the doctor and his wife had given hospitality at their ground-floor surgery, was found the following morning: the man murdered, the wife still alive but in severe condition.
In the early hours of 10 November, Dr. X., and later his wife, were arrested and separately taken to the Gestapo quarters. Both were released soon, but spent the next few days with friends in a suburb. Afterwards they emigrated to England. Non-Jews helping Jews - the lady in the neighbourhood who had saved most of the family's silver, linen and carpets.