Two weeks later came Pogrom Night (often identified in English language sources as "Kristallnacht"), during which, over in Königsberg, her parents' property was destroyed or plundered in a national government-directed anti-Jewish pogrom. Rachel Lewin slept through the night untroubled in her aunt's house. The next morning, however, she witnessed Jews being beaten up and chased through the Hamburg streets by Nazi paramilitaries. Unsure what was going on, she pushed her way through the crowd gathering at the newsstand on which newspapers were piled up, showing photographs of the overnight campaign of arson, looting and bloodshed. The news vendor, whom till now had always seemed a friendly soul, spotted her, and giving a fair rendering of the Berlin dialect snarled, "So, little Jew, do you too want to see how your synagogues burned?" The memory of that morning would never leave her. When she returned to her aunt's house, her aunt was able to tell her more about what had happened. Most of the teachers and some of the students at the at which Flora Rosenbaum taught had already been arrested. Desperately worried about her family, Rachel Lewin managed to contact her father who ordered her to come home. When she reached Königsberg she found her parents living with her younger brother, Abraham, in the small apartment to which they had been forced to move. Abraham had been so traumatised by the violence and destruction he had witnessed that he had acquired a sudden and severe speech impediment. Meanwhile, her father carried the recent scars of a serious head injury which, she learned, had been inflicted using the handle of an oven.