Kristallnacht: On the 82nd Anniversary of the ‘Night of Broken Glass’

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On Nov, 9-10, 1938, a horrific pogrom against Jews was carried out in Germany, Austria, and the occupied part of Czechoslovakia. Known in German as Kristallnacht and dubbed the “Night of Broken Glass,” at least 91 Jews were murdered outright and hundreds of others perished by maltreatment at the hands of Nazi paramilitary forces and regular civilians. Hundreds more took their own lives. In addition, tens of thousands of Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. During the rampage, 267 synagogues were destroyed, and 7,000 Jewish-owned businesses were damaged or destroyed. It was the beginning of the end for European Jewry.

Quote: “In Dresden, Sylvia Morris witnessed the ransacking of the Jewish department store — Etam’s [on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938]. ‘Dresden had been peaceful and not pro-Nazi so this was a major event,’ she recalled. ‘We girls in the Töchterhaus made our terrified landlady go to the store to buy things. We opened all the windows and sang Mendelssohn songs as loudly as we could.”
-― Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People

Sources: Wikipedia, goodreads.com

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