The survivors and refugees describe their memories of Kristallnacht ( known as " Night of the Broken Glass " ) , the coordinated series of attacks by the Nazis against Jewish communities throughout Germany and Austria in 1938 . Others speak of finding refuge in England through the Kindertransport , escaping to the United States and Shanghai , living in hiding in France , and deportation to the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps . The film also explores their postwar lives and how they started new lives in Chicago
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
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