Solomon Schonfeld
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Solomon Schonfeld was a British rabbi who was honoured as a British Hero of the Holocaust for saving the lives of thousands of Jews.
Solomon Schonfeld in his self-made military uniform for his 1946 trip to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps to help survivors
Kristallnacht
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Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung and Schutzstaffel paramilitary forces along with s
Solomon Schonfeld
…the Chief Rabbi's Religious Emergency Council, which he created with approval of Chief Rabbi Hertz, his father-in-law. In the autumn of 1938, following Kristallnacht, Julius Steinfeld, a communal leader in Austria, called Rabbi Schonfeld, pleading with him to assemble a children's transport to England for Vienna's…
Partially destroyed Fasanenstrasse Synagogue in Berlin
Polish Jews expelled from Germany in late October 1938
Herschel Grynszpan, 7 November 1938
Ernst vom Rath