Einstein on the Holocaust: He Never Forgot, Never Forgave

Between 1939 and 1945 the German government, first methodically and then frantically, gassed, starved, shot, hung and tortured to death anyone born to Jewish parents. Six million Jews – about two-thirds of European Jewry – died in the Holocaust.

Einstein never forgave the Germans. “After the Germans bestially murdered more than half of my Jewish brethren,” he writes here, “it is impossible for me to participate in any German public endeavor.”

Typed Letter Signed (“A. Einstein”), in German, 1 page, quarto, on his personal letterhead, 112 Mercer Street, Princeton, New Jersey,  March 8, 1948. To Joe J. Heydecker (1916-1997) in Munich.