Showing posts with label Crystal Night. Show all posts
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Nov 9, 2013

Germany: 75 years after Kristallnacht

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 its
Exhibition 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.