Jewish Telegraphic Agency4mon
A survivor kept the key from a German synagogue destroyed on Kristallnacht. 86 years later, the relic is returning home.
Later that night, the synagogue was burned to the ground by the Nazis in the Kristallnacht pogrom. Only two items survived the fire: a Torah scroll and Katzenstein’s key. “I just remember her ...
World’s oldest Holocaust survivor dies in LI nursing home at age 113: ‘She made the best of terrible situations’
Rose Girone, who once credited her longevity to dark chocolate, survived the Nazi horror of Kristallnacht and her husband’s ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency2d
85 years after Kristallnacht, Germany to begin rebuilding grand synagogue in Hamburg
(JTA) — More than 80 years after one of Germany’s most prominent synagogues was destroyed on Kristallnacht, the Jewish community of Hamburg has taken ownership of the building’s site and is ...
Kristallnacht's legacy still haunts Hamburg, even as city rebuilds former synagogue burned in Nazi pogrom
That day came to be known as Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, a euphemism referring to the many windows shattered ...
Into the Shadows on MSN13d
The Nazi Attack on Jewish Communities: Kristallnacht
In the dark hours of 9th November 1938, Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were vandalized and set aflame, ...
Brandeis University11y
Seventy-five years later, Kristallnacht invokes national reflection
The next morning, the streets sparkled with the broken glass of Jewish-owned storefronts. Kristallnacht marked a turning point in the Nazis’ march toward the Final Solution and the Holocaust. On the ...
Brandeis University1y
'Kristallnacht' and the Anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler: On the Interaction of Malicious Intentions and Unplanned Circumstances
As early as 1919, Adolf Hitler distinguished between pogrom violence and so-called “rational” anti-Semitism. To achieve a lasting solution to the “Jewish question,” the young Hitler insisted that anti ...
MercoPress4mon
Kristallnacht remembered in Uruguay by the entire political spectrum
When combined, all these manifestations create an atmosphere that is “eerily reminiscent of the days before Kristallnacht,” Tocar stressed. “We must not underestimate the gravity of these ...
PBS1y
Nazis in the News: 1938
During a night that would go down in history as Kristallnacht("night of broken glass"), homes were ransacked, businesses were burned down, and synagogues were blown up. Shortly afterward ...
BBC5mon
Kristallnacht - the Night of Broken Glass
Elsbeth Rosenfeld talks about Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) - an organised nationwide attack on Jews - and compares it to a declaration of war. After a description of the horror of ...
BBC5mon
Kristallnacht - the Night of Broken Glass
Elsbeth Rosenfeld talks about Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) - an organised nationwide attack on Jews - and compares it to a declaration of war. After a description of the horror of ...
PBS7y
Nazis in the News: 1938
During a night that would go down in history as Kristallnacht("night of broken glass"), homes were ransacked, businesses were burned down, and synagogues were blown up. Shortly afterward ...