On November 9-10, we observe the 86th anniversary of the Night of Broken Glass. Yad Vashem and the Kibbutz Religious Movement have launched the #SpreadtheLight initiative.
On Sunday night, 10 November, leave the lights on overnight as a symbol of the enduring Jewish spirit & in memory of those whose lives were shattered.
Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass is the name given to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms that occurred on November 9 and 10, 1938, throughout Germany and annexed Austria and other areas occupied by German troops.
Onlookers watched while more than 1400 synagogues and places of worship were destroyed.
Appr. 400 people were murdered or driven to commit suicide.
Jewish cemeteries and other Jewish community institutions were ravaged and 7500 businesses and homes were destroyed.
The Jews had to pay for the damage themselves and were fined 1 billion Reichsmark by the government.
Photo: Terrified and injured Jewish people during the Kristallnacht riots, 10/11/1938, Nuremberg, Germany.
Yad Vashem Archive https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/kristallnacht/index.asp
Photo courtesy: Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/tags/en/tag/kristallnacht?page=3
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63587638
Chapman University https://blogs.chapman.edu/holocaust-education/2013/11/08/recent-kristallnacht-books/
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