Shortly thereafter , young Michael Wieck was compelled to work in factories . In mid-1941 Wieck celebrated his Bar Mitzva in the small Orthodox synagogue '' Adass Jisroel '' , as the main Jewish synogogue of Königsberg had been destroyed in the Nazi " '' Kristallnacht '' " pogrom of November 1938 . During the pogrom perpetrators vandalized the interior of the Orthodox synagogue hall , but spared it from arson because it was housed in a residential building . Later the congregation restored a prayer hall in the building and used it until the few remaining Königsberg synagogues were banned
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Michael Wieck