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Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht survivor calls on German police to stand firm against hate

By LESLIE KOLIRIN

(JTA) — One of the last surviving Jewish witnesses of Kristallnacht told German police leaders they have an “enormous responsibility” to learn the lessons of the past.

George Shefi, 94, this week returned to the city of his...

A survivor kept the key from a German synagogue destroyed on Kristallnacht. 86 years later, the relic is returning home.

By JACOB GURVIS

(JTA) — Cantor Jennifer Bern-Vogel was used to hearing her mother tell the story.

On the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, her mother, then Marianne Katzenstein, who was 16 at the time, was in her family’s synagogue in...

Rav-Elations!: Kristallnacht

By RABBI DAVID GERBER

85 years ago today, Jews in Germany suffered from the pogram known as the Night of the Broken Glass. Hundreds of synagogues were destroyed. Thousands of Jewish businesses were ransacked. Tens of thousands of Jews were...

From virtual reality to digital synagogues, tech adds new dimension to Kristallnacht commemorations in Germany

By TOBY AXELROD

(JTA) — Nov. 9 marks several historical anniversaries in Germany, including Adolf Hitler’s failed putsch in 1923 and the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.

But the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938 eclipses them all, in terms of...

On 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Holocaust survivors say they fear familiar antisemitism

By PHILISSA CRAMER

(JTA) — The comparisons are easy to draw: broken glass, burned buildings, shuttered businesses, dead Jews.

Eighty-five years after Kristallnacht, the anti-Jewish riots that marked a brutal turning point in the Nazi campaign of persecution in Germany,...

Kristallnacht: International March of the Living issues statement, testimonies of Jews afraid again

(NEW YORK) – Marking 85 years since the Kristallnacht pogrom, the International March of the Living today released testimonies of Holocaust survivors from around the world expressing how they feel afraid as Jews and calling for immediate help in fighting the...

In Germany, Kristallnacht goes by a different name. Here’s why.

By TOBY AXELROD

(JTA) – This week, Jewish communities across the United States are commemorating the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the anti-Jewish riots that marked a brutal turning point in the Nazi campaign of persecution.

In Germany, cities and towns also...

KFC Germany apologizes for ‘treat yourself’ chicken promotion tied to Kristallnacht

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — The German branch of international fast-food chain KFC apologized to customers Wednesday for sending out a promotional message tied to the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the evening of Nazi-led antisemitic riots that precipitated the mass murder...

Kristallnacht

By RABBI JOSEPH H. PROUSER

Kristallnacht was a coordinated series of devastating attacks on the Jewish community throughout Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland on November 9-10, 1938.  In the rampage, perpetrated by Nazi forces abetted by German civilians, 267 synagogues...

Christiane Amanpour invokes Kristallnacht in comparing Trump’s ‘assault on fact’ to the Nazis

(JTA) — CNN’s Christiane Amanpour invoked the anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogroms in comparing President Donald Trump’s dishonesty to the Nazi “attack on fact.”

Amanpour made the comparison on Thursday in the introduction to her show, “Amanpour,” which CNN calls its “flagship global affairs interview...