Shattered Crystals - The Holocaust Diaries

Shattered Crystals - The Holocaust Diaries Eva Rosensweig Kugler, was born in the German city of HalleanderSaale, where her father owned a prosperous retail business and was a member of small Orthodox community. Raised in a loving Jewish home, she was unaware of the growing threat of Nazism that began in 1933. In November 1938, when she was seven years old, stormtroopers invaded the family home, arrested her father and destroyed his business. The terrifying events of Kristallnacht brought about an amnesia of the Holocaust years that persisted and plagued her for decades, until she asked her mother, Mia Amalia Kanner, to fill in all that happened to the family during the missing years. Shattered Crystals is Mia Amilia Kanner's remarkable story of her Jewish childhood in Leipzig, Germany, her marriage and move to Halle, the birth of her three daughters and how her idyllic life was shattered by the ever increasing anti-Semitic acts and laws after Hitler came to power in 1933. She recounts