Local restaurant owner Elliot Fiks’ grandfather wrote what is possibly the only surviving account by a German Jew who experienced the infamous Night of Broken Glass Nazi on Nov. 9, 1938.
During an April 23 presentation on Kristallnacht, Fiks will read excerpts from his grandfather David Fiks’ letter describing the Nazi pogrom, which burned synagogues to the ground, vandalized Jewish businesses and killed scores of German Jews. Many historians see the event as the prelude to the Holocaust, which would begin less than a year later.
David Fiks’ original letter is located in the Berlin Jewish Museum.
The talk begins at 11 a.m. April 23 in T-101. A Q&A will follow.
