After the Nazis seized power in 1933 and the Civil Service Law was passed a few months later , Remak , who was of Jewish ancestry , lost his right to teach in September 1933 . He was arrested on Kristallnacht , 9 November 1938 , and was interned at Sachsenhausen concentration camp for several weeks . After an unsuccessful campaign by his wife to secure a permission for him to emigrate to the United States , he was released and permitted to leave for Amsterdam . In 1942 , he was arrested by the German occupational authorities in the Netherlands and deported to Auschwitz , where he was murdered
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Robert Remak (mathematician)