WASHINGTON (JTA) — The lesson of Kristallnacht is to speak out “against anti-Semitism and intolerance,” President Obama said in marking the 75th anniversary of the pogrom that presaged the Holocaust.
“Kristallnacht foreshadowed the systematic slaughter of six million Jews and...
ROME (JTA) – Calling Jews “our older big brothers,” Pope Francis marked the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht by renewing what he termed his “closeness and solidarity with the Jewish people.”
Francis spoke about the anniversary following his Sunday address to...
“Refuge,” an award-winning documentary, explores the lives of six survivors and refugees against the context of the Nazi cataclysm and how a small group of them came together, creating a community that has given shelter to more than 1,000 victims...
This weekend we commemorate the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, translated as “Crystal Night” or “The Night of Broken Glass.” While many egregious acts against Jews by the Nazis were recorded before November 9 and 10, 1938, Kristallnacht was different for...
LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Theodore Bikel, who fled the Nazi occupation of his native Vienna for prestate Israel, will be honored by the Austrian government on the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
On Thursday, Bikel, 89, will accept the country’s highest...
BERLIN (JTA) — A German hotel apologized for running an ad for a “long, romantic Kristall-Nacht” to be held on the 75th anniversary of the Nazi pogrom against Jews and their institutions.
The Kristall Sauna Wellnesspark in Bad Klosterlausnitz, in...
(JTA) — His hearing isn’t what it used to be, but Georges Loinger still remembers Adolf Hitler’s voice emanating from the radio at his Strasbourg home.
Growing up in the heavily Germanic Alsace region of eastern France,...
