Kristallnacht
It is 70 years since the Kristallnacht Pogrom.
“The Kristallnacht Pogrom was an organized pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria that occurred on November 9–10, 1938. Kristallnacht is also known as the November Pogrom, “Night of Broken Glass,” and “Crystal Night.” Orchestrated by the Nazis in retaliation for the assassination of a German embassy official in Paris by a seventeen-year-old Jewish youth named Herchel Grynzspan, 1,400 synagogues and 7,000 businesses were destroyed, almost 100 Jews were killed, and 30,000 were arrested and sent to concentration camps. German Jews were
subsequently held financially responsible for the destruction wrought upon their
property during this pogrom.”
Other links to posts/articles about Kristallnacht:
Rubicon 3
Crown Heights Info
Israel At Level Ground
CNN
Jewlicious
Leora
On a side note it is worth mentioning that they discovered the construction plans for Auschwitz.
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