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Kristallnacht

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Kristallnacht

Night of 9-10 November 1938 when the Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA) militia in Germany and Austria mounted a concerted attack on Jews, their synagogues, homes, and shops. It followed the assassination of a German embassy official in Paris by a Polish-Jewish youth. Subsequent measures included German legislation against Jews owning businesses or property, and restrictions on their going to school or leaving Germany. It was part of the Holocaust.

More than 200,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps, and 91 Jews were killed during the Kristallnacht. The damage to property is estimated at 25 million marks.



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I remember her telling us once about the 1938 Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) pogrom, during which Nazi mobs attacked Jews, burned synagogues, and smashed Jewish businesses and institutions.
Never again! The pope's visit to the Cologne Synagogue was both a ... by Scherer-Emunds, Meinrad / U.S. Catholic
1938: A Nazi-organized persecution of Jews known as Kristallnacht (kris-TULL-nokt)--or Night of Broken Glass--takes place.
Auschwitz/concentration camps time line by Junior Scholastic
Oma relates the story of her early life in Germany through the photographs, but while previously Oma had always stopped sharing the first album partway through, now Rachel is old enough to hear the whole story--the inexorable degeneration of Jews' rights, Kristallnacht, the family's separation, "dismal years" in concentration camps.
Marisabina Russo: Always Remember Me: How One Family Survived World ... by Bloom, Susan P. / The Horn Book Magazine
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