Kristallnacht’s legacy still haunts Hamburg − even as the city rebuilds a former synagogue burned in the Nazi pogrom
That day came to be known as Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, a euphemism referring to the many windows shattered ...
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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 ...
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Mixed-reality project uses Holocaust survivor to describe Kristallnacht
A new mixed-reality project uses the voice and images of a Holocaust survivor to take viewers into the "Night of Broken Glass ...
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On 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Holocaust survivors say they feel familiar antisemitism
Eighty-five years after Kristallnacht, the anti-Jewish riots that marked a brutal turning point in the Nazi campaign of persecution in Germany, Holocaust survivors say what happened in southern ...
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'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 ...
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Journeys of nearly 9,000 children who escaped certain death by Nazis detailed in never-before-seen documents
Documents, believed to have been lost or destroyed, have been found in archives in Israel detailing the journeys of nearly ...
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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 ...
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Kristallnacht or Night of Broken Glass – a prelude to the Holocaust
Polish Jews expelled from Germany in late October 1938 en.wikipedia.org Kristallnacht or Night of Broken Glass – a prelude to the Holocaust On the night of 9-10 November 1938, a series of violent anti ...
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On Kristallnacht anniversary, Austrian government unveils memorial wall with 64,440 names
(JTA) — The Austrian government inaugurated a $7 million Holocaust memorial monument on the anniversary of the 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms. The “Shoah Wall of Names” that city and central ...
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Jewish communities mark 85 years since Kristallnacht
Members of the Jewish Community have gathered to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht. 'The night of broken glass' refers to the shattered glass left by Nazi vandalism on Jewish ...
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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 ...