In the dark hours of 9th November 1938, Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were vandalized and set aflame, ...

Kristallnacht was a wake-up call that too many, including too many Jews, slept through. The world, and especially the Jews, cannot afford to sleep through another wake-up call that is occurring ...

Kristallnacht's legacy still haunts Hamburg, even as city rebuilds former synagogue burned in Nazi pogrom. Story by Yaniv Feller • 13h. J ohanna Neumann was 8 when she witnessed a mob of local ...

“Kristallnacht is a much too pretty word for something so terrible, and I don’t use it anymore,” said Jessica Ohletz, vice principal of the Julius-Leber High School in Breisach, ...

Remembering Kristallnacht A bar mitzvah gift that survived the Holocaust provides a chance to reflect on the "Night of Broken Glass" — November 9, 1938. The morning after.

People — most likely in Fürth, Germany — watch a Nazi officer ransack Jewish property on Nov. 10, 1938. This photo is part of a previously unseen album of images captured on Kristallnacht.

"It's the opening act of the Holocaust," said Charlie Sydnor, former director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond and now its senior staff historian.

KFC has apologized for sending an alert urging customers in Germany to commemorate the Kristallnacht – the 1938 pogrom that preceded the Holocaust.

In a moment heavy with symbolism, Germany on Thursday marked the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the eruption of murderous Nazi violence against the country’s Jews on the night of Nov. 9, 1938.

The attacks became known as Kristallnacht – the “Night of Broken Glass” – for the streets littered with broken glass from the vandalism. But the pogrom of Nov. 9-10, ...

In Germany, Kristallnacht goes by a different name. Here’s why Many German speakers are rejecting the euphemism for the events of Nov. 8-9, 1938, which translates to ‘night of shattered glass ...