In 1938 Celan traveled to Tours , France , to study medicine . The Anschluss precluded his study in Vienna , and Romanian schools were harder to get into due to the newly imposed Jewish quota . His journey to France took him through Berlin as the events of Kristallnacht unfolded , and also introduced him to his uncle , Bruno Schrager , who was later among the French detainees who died at Birkenau . Celan returned to Cernăuţi in 1939 to study literature and Romance languages
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Paul Celan