Commemorate The 87th Anniversary of Kristallnacht

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presents:
Commemorate the 87th Anniversary of Kristallnacht
with Fred Zeilberger

Sunday, November 9, 2025
8:30 pm Eastern / 5:30 pm Pacific

Fred and Elaine Zeilberger

The FJMC Committee to Combat Antisemitism will commemorate the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht with Fred Zeilberger, who survived this tragedy as an eight-year-old in Germany. Fred would survive deportation and the camps as an adolescent and teenager during the war.

It was Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938, when Fred Zeilberger’s father, owner of a custom Men’s Clothing shop in Wurzburg, Germany, was arrested and sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. His business, and the Synagogue where he prayed daily, were destroyed, as were all the other Jewish owned businesses and Synagogues.

Once in the Ghetto, Fred and his family were forced to wear the Jewish Star and were reviled, insulted and cursed in the streets by German locals. In December 1941, just shy of his 12th birthday, Fred and his family were among the first 200 Jews to be sent to an extermination camp near Riga, Latvia, and then to Poland. Separated from his family and useful to the Germans as a laborer, he was shipped to five different camps until finally liberated in the Spring of 1945 by the Russians from the Stutthof Concentration Camp in Poland.

When Fred returned to Wurzburg, he learned that his entire family had been killed by the Germans. Now officially a “war orphan”, he was eligible for several refuge programs from the United States. He was eventually drafted into the Korean War in 1951.

He met his wife Elaine in 1956. He has three children and three grandchildren. Fred, at age 95, continues to be a guest speaker at Jewish organizations where he, as a witness to every aspect of Holocaust, continues to tell the story of his experiences during the Holocaust.

In this webinar, we’ll talk about his experiences during this tragedy and how it impacted his post Holocaust life. He and his wife, Elaine, celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary earlier this year.

Our thanks to NY Metro Region’s, Milton Lipitz, for connecting us with Fred. 

Learn more about combating antisemitism
and to view our previous presentations:

FJMC Combating Antisemitism Initiative Web Page