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A short focus on a person or event associated with this day in History.
Kristallnacht (November 9, 1938) On this night and into the wee hours of the next morning, glass store and house windows were smashed throughout Jewish neighborhoods in Germany. Thousands of books - volumes of history, philosophy, poetry and religion - fueled bonfires throughout the ghettoes. Synagogues and the Torah scrolls inside them were burned to the ground. |
A Night of Terror in Germany Attempt
On this night in 1938 the Jewish community in
Germany endured a night of terror. Nazi thugs went on a rampage, attacking Jewish
synagogues, businesses, and property. During the night 267 synagogues were plundered,
7,500 shops were wrecked, 91 Jews were killed and 20,000 others were arrested and sent to
concentration camps. Sources: |