In September 1938 , he was barred from delivering any speech or sermon . His home was destroyed in the pogroms of Kristallnacht and a few days later , he was taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In 1939 , he was able to emigrate to England , thanks to the intervention and pledges of George Bell , Anglican bishop of Chichester . He had had a correspondence with Bell and was perhaps more significant than Franz Hildebrandt or Bonhoeffer in convincing Bell of the growing crisis in German churches under the Nazi state . His family joined him shortly afterward . Ecumenism , religious unity , became increasingly important to him here
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Hans Ehrenberg