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Nov 8, 2018 · During Kristallnacht, also known as the “night of broken glass,” anti-Semitic rioters terrorized Jews throughout Germany and its territories. They vandalized homes and businesses, attacked and ...
Nov 15, 2022 · An unnamed Jewish-American soldier who served in the U.S. Army’s counter-intelligence department during World War II took possession of the photos and kept them for many years at his home in...
Nov 10, 2022 · Some 30,000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps. Now, a Holocaust memorial centre has released a collection of photos of the November pogrom of 1938 - or Kristallnacht, the Night of...
Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, was the Nazi dictatorship’s declaration of war against German and Austrian Jews in November 1938. December 1, 2023. Top Photo: Vandalized storefront of a shop in Berlin owned by Jews, November 1938. National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD.
- The Persecution of German Jews
- Herschel Grynszpan and The Start of The "Night of Broken Glass"
- What Happened During Kristallnacht
- The Impact and Aftermath of Kristallnacht
Shortly after Hitler became Germany's chancellor in 1933, he and his Nazi leadership began implementing various policies designed to both isolate and persecute Germany's Jewish population. In the five years between Hitler taking office and the "Night of Broken Glass," countless non-violent anti-Semitic laws came into effect throughout Germany. Germ...
17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan was living with his uncle in Paris when he received word that his father and the rest of his family had been deported from Germany. Outraged at the news, Herschel decided to go to the German embassy in France and kill the German ambassador as revenge. The German ambassador to France was not at the embassy when Hersche...
Müller's orders opened the floodgates for what happened during Kristallnacht on the night of Nov. 9 and into the next day. Nazis vandalized, destroyed, and burned down countless Jewish synagogues, homes, schools, businesses, hospitals, and cemeteries. Close to 100 Jewish lives were lost across Germany and hundreds more were severely injured. As one...
The events of Nov. 9 and 10 were devastating not only because of what happened during Kristallnacht itself but also because of the standard it set for violence against Jews in Germany. Before the "Night of Broken Glass," anti-Semitism was largely non-violent, but afterward, that was no longer the case. In response, many European Jews began to escap...
Kristallnacht (German pronunciation: [kʁɪsˈtalnaχt] ⓘ lit. 'crystal night') or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom (s) (German: Novemberpogrome, pronounced [noˈvɛm.bɐ.poˌɡʁoːmə] ⓘ), [1][2][3] was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party 's Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary ...
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These Torah scrolls, one from a synagogue in Vienna and the other from Marburg, were desecrated during Kristallnacht (the "Night of Broken Glass"), the violent anti-Jewish pogrom of November 9 and 10, 1938.
