Several months after that night, her father was only able to negotiate a single spot on the Kindertransport trains that were taking refugee children to England, sparing them from the Nazi threat. The family sent Ms. Soumerai and kept her younger brother, Norbert, behind in hopes of getting him out later. In the packed railway station, she bid her family goodbye. As violence that became known as Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, spread through Berlin on Nov. 9, 1938, Eve Nussbaum Soumerai and her family stayed inside their home. Clasping each other in the dark, they looked out a...