In 1933 , after the Nazis took power , Baeck worked to defend the Jewish community as president of the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden , an umbrella organization that united German Jewry from 1933 to 1938 . After the Reichsvertretung was disbanded during the November Pogrom , the Nazis reassembled the council 's members under the government controlled Reichsvereinigung . Leo Baeck headed this organization as its president until his deportation . On 27 January 1943 , he was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp
the November Pogrom
Kristallnacht
Leo Baeck