Born in Halle , Germany , he was arrested by Nazis on the night of 9 November 1938 , known as Kristallnacht . Briefly interned at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp ( 1938 – 1939 ) , he escaped with his younger brother Wolfgang to Great Britain , where his parents later joined him . Emil 's older brother Ernst-Alexander , who refused to leave Germany , was killed in the Holocaust
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Emil Fackenheim