Named provost of the cathedral , in 1938 , Lichtenberg was put in charge of the Relief Office of the Berlin episcopate , which assisted many Catholics of Jewish descent in emigrating from the Third Reich . After Kristallnacht , the first organized Nazi pogrom in Germany , Lichtenberg warned at the Berlin Church of Saint Hedwig : " The burning synagogue outside is also a house of God ! " Until his arrest in October 1941 , Lichtenberg would pray publicly for the persecuted Jews at the daily Vespers service . Bishop Konrad von Preysing later entrusted him with the task of helping the Jewish community of the city
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Bernhard Lichtenberg