Commemoration in observance of the 75th anniversary of Kristallnach are held in German towns ans all over the world.
75 years ago Crystal Night (November 9, 1938) - in German: Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass was the beginning of the anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany and Austria and the so called Eastern-German territories or Southerlands on 9 to 10 November 1938.
Yad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaustpresent via itsExhibition Marking the Events of Kristallnacht called "It Came From Within...", what happend in Worms, Regensburg, Baden-Baden, Kassel, München, Berlin, Franfurt-am-Main, Marburg and Vienna.
On 8 th November 2013 in Berlin, shops cover their window to give the impression of broken glasses.
In München, names of the Jews executed in the Bavarian capital will be read publicly. This event is called Everyone has a name in München. Austrian President Heinz Fischer held a moment of silence in front of the memorial commemorating Holocaust victims on Judenplatz in Vienna November 8, 2013
Launched on 23rd October 2013, The Vienna Project is a memorial project, 75 years after the "Anschluss" - Austria’s annexation by Nazi Germany. 2013 is also 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner
“Events in only recently annexed Austria were no less horrendous. Of the entire Crystal Night only the pogrom in Vienna was completely successful. Most of Vienna's 94 synagogues and prayer-houses were partially or totally destroyed. People were subjected to all manner of humiliations” (www.jobeograd.org)
”The pogrom proved especially destructive in Berlin and Vienna, home to the two largest Jewish communities in the German Reich. Mobs of SA men roamed the streets, attacking Jews in their houses and forcing Jews they encountered to perform acts of public humiliation. Although murder did not figure in the central directives, Kristallnacht claimed the lives of at least 91 Jews between 9 and 10 November. Police records of the period document a high number of rapes and of suicides in the aftermath of the violence.
As the pogrom spread, units of the SS and Gestapo (Secret State Police), following Heydrich's instructions, arrested up to 30,000 Jewish males, and transferred most of them from local prisons to Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, and other concentration camps.” - writes the Holcaust Encyclopédia at the Unated States Holocaus Museum Website. (http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005201)
Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, a chief instigator of the pogrom announced afterwards that Kristallnacht had erupted as a spontaneous outburst of public sentiment in response to the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, a German embassy official by Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish Jew, in Paris on November 7.
This is from that night that antisemitism became an official policy managed by the SS.
American President Obama joins millions of people in the United States and around the world in marking the 75th anniversary of the tragedy of Kristallnacht- published his Press Secretary:
"As we mark this anniversary, let us act in keeping with the lessons of that dark night by speaking out against anti-Semitism and intolerance, standing up to indifference, and re-committing ourselves to combatting prejudice and persecution wherever it exists. In so doing, we honor the memories of those killed and reaffirm that timeless call: “Never Again."