21st November 1938

In Dinslaken the orphanage was forcibly entered during the night, the children driven out of the building and into the yard and the orphanage wrecked. The children were then accommodated in various Jewish homes in Dinslaken and were looked after there by poor families. The children were then later taken to Cologne, where some were accommodated in the orphanage there and others in the Chaluz house in Cologne.

In Dinslaken two houses under Jewish ownership were also burned down because they stood apart from the others and no other property was thereby endangered. The mother-in-law of the owner of one of the houses, a lady of nearly 70, had to be carried out whilst it was burning. The house of a widow with 2 children was completely wrecked and looted.

The reporter telephoned an Aryan lawyer in D., who told him he could now vouch that nothing would happen to anybody else because the government had forbidden it. The properties are nevertheless “damaged”.

Alfred Cohen