Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, a pogrom in Nazi Germany carried out Nov. 9-10, 1938.
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Fast Forward Men Shouting In Arabic About Killing Jews Disrupt London Kristallnacht Vigil
(JTA)— A vigil held by pro-Israel activists in London for Jews murdered in Arab countries was dispersed violently by men shouting about killing Jews in Arabic. The event Wednesday by the Israel Advocacy Movement was held on Speaker’s Corner in London’s Hyde Park, which is known for its culture of free speech and passionate street preachers…
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Culture Austria Confronts Kristallnacht — 80 Years Later
2018 is Austria’s Gedenkjahr, 12 months of landmarks, anniversaries and commemorations that reach their zenith and nadir in November. The 11th and 12th of this month mark 100 years since the abdication of the last emperor, Charles I, and the declaration of the Republic of German-Austria. November 9 and 10, however, will be 80 years…
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Fast Forward 12 Holocaust Memorial Stones Swiped On Eve Of Kristallnacht Anniversary
German police have launched an investigation into the theft of at least 12 inscribed metal memorial stones embedded in the pavement in Berlin to commemorate Nazi victims. The stones, called “Stolpersteine,” bear the names of the victims and are set in the ground in front of the last address where they lived before being murdered…
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Community 3 Stalwart Acts Of Faith Saved My Family From The Holocaust
I was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 31, 1939. I am a third-generation German. My father was born in Poland and immigrated to Germany as a 13-year-old boy to serve as an apprentice cap maker. After Hitler rose to power in 1933, things started to get bad. After the Nuremberg Laws were enacted, my…
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Fast Forward A Family’s Tale Bares Secrets Of Little-Known Jewish Enclave In Dominican Republic
Emily Codik had grown up hearing the tale: The night before Kristallnacht, her father’s family escaped Berlin and found haven in an unlikely place — Sosua, a remote beach town on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. There, the story went, they carved out a peaceful life for themselves, alongside many other Jews who…
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Life German Court Ponders Whether Synagogue-Burning Is Always Anti-Semitic, Decides Nah
If there were ever a clear act of anti-Semitism, it would be a synagogue torching in Germany. Attacking a synagogue in Europe is about as definitively anti-Jewish, as versus anti-Zionist, as it gets. And Germany! Case closed, one might imagine. Not so: In the Jerusalem Post, Benjamin Weinthal reports that a court decision in Wuppertal…
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Culture Bringing Jewish Music Back From the Ashes of Kristallnacht
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. When Hirsch Lewin was deported from Germany in 1940 after six months of suffering in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, he could not have imagined that seventy-six years later, musicians in Berlin would release an album of the music he had produced. Even when Lewin founded his record…
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News After Trump Victory, This Philadelphia Storefront Was Graffitied With Swastika
A few hours after Donald Trump clinched his victory in the presidential contest — also the 78th anniversary of Kristallnacht — anti-Semitic graffiti celebrating the leader appeared on a storefront in South Philadelphia. The graffiti included expressions such as “Sieg Heil 2016,” a reference to the “Hail Victory” Nazi slogan, and “Trump,” with the “T”…
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