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Dec 16, 2009 · Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom (s), was a prolonged series of violent attacks on Jewish people, homes, businesses and synagogues in 1938...
Kristallnacht, the night of November 9–10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property. The name refers ironically to the litter of broken glass left in the streets after these pogroms.
- Michael Berenbaum
In the so-called "Polenaktion", more than 12,000 Polish Jews, among them the philosopher and theologian Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and future literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki were expelled from Germany on 28 October 1938, on Hitler's orders.
Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, was the Nazi dictatorship ’s declaration of war against German and Austrian Jews and, implicitly, against Jews living anywhere in the world. Across Germany and German-annexed Austria on November 9–10, 1938, the Nazis staged spectacles of vengeance and degradation that shattered far more than glass.
Nov 9, 2017 · The Oranienburger Strasse Synagogue that was burnt by the Nazis on Kristallnacht. Between November 9 and 10, 267 synagogues, countless businesses and the homes of thousands of Jews were looted and ...
Aug 2, 2016 · Learn what incited Kristallnacht and get insight into the experiences of Jews in Germany on the night of horrendous violence in November 1938. Last Updated: August 2, 2016.
