When the Nazis took power in Germany in 1933 , Hermann Schreiber , like other German Jews , was subjected to persecutions . In 1938 , during Kristallnacht , he witnessed the demolition of the Potsdam synagogue . Shortly afterwards he was put in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . At the beginning of 1939 , after his release from the camp , he managed to emigrate with his wife and son to the United Kingdom , where he lived in London . He continued his journalistic work , writing articles in English , contributed to the work of the Beth din ( house of judgment ) of the Association of Synagogues in Great Britain . He also participated in the life of the Jewish community in Amsterdam , and from 1952 he visited West Berlin , where he took part in the celebrations of the Rosh Hashanah ( Jewish New Year ) . During one of those visits , he died during the celebrations , immediately after preaching a sermon in the synagogue at Pestalozzistrasse in Berlin . Hermann Schreiber was buried at the Jewish Weißensee Cemetery in Berlin
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Hermann Schreiber