To Remember And Reflect In Memory Of Kristallnacht 1938

84 Years Later A Rare Look At The Nazi Attacks Of Kristallnacht The This article uses field visits (including photographs) to examine the construction of religious memory in the commemoration of kristallnacht (crystal night) in contemporary german society. over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of kristallnacht memorials to the synagogues that were destroyed during the pogroms of november 9, 1938. The terms kristallnacht and “november pogroms” are both designations for the violent acts against jews that were committed primarily in the night of 9–10 november 1938 throughout the german reich. organized and initiated centrally by the nazi leadership, the violence was carried out at local and regional levels by members of the sa and ss with a high level of autonomy.

Kristallnacht Pictures Capture Horrors Of 1938 Nazi Pogrom Bbc News This and the next day are known as kristallnacht, the night of broken glass and there are still some who remember it vividly. she was just 10 years old on 10 november 1938. the day began. On the night of november 9, 1938, nazi thugs orchestrated attacks against nearly 1,000 synagogues and jewish businesses across germany and austria. along with non jewish germans, they burned and looted jewish owned businesses, hospitals, schools and homes, and rounded up some 30,000 jewish men for imprisonment in concentration camps. the next morning, the streets sparkled with the broken glass. Kristallnacht was a turning point in the mounting persecution of jews by the nazi party. before these two days of terror, the campaign against german jews had primarily been nonviolent. that all changed during the events of november 9 10, 1938 when the gestapo formed mobs and took to the streets to destroy jewish businesses and residences. A kristallnacht lesson. as we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the carnage known historically as kristallnacht, orchestrated by the nazi regime, we are faced with another horrendous attack on innocent jews, this time by a lone psychotic anti semite targeting jews at prayer in a pittsburgh synagogue. let us reflect on the significance of this.