In the dark hours of 9th November 1938, Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were vandalized and set aflame, marking a terrifying new phase of Nazi persecution: Kristallnacht.

Rose Girone, who once credited her longevity to dark chocolate, survived the Nazi horror of Kristallnacht and her ... moved with her family as a child to Hamburg in northern Germany.

Born in Janov, Poland in 1912, Girone’s family settled in Hamburg, Germany ... Poland), just as Kristallnacht launched waves of violence against Germany’s Jews. Mannheim was arrested and ...

Prisoners leaving also listed as deceased. Dates of birth listed for deceased prisoners. Status change for 3 prisoners. Prisoner listed as Aktions-Jude (Aktionsjuden) / Operation Jews (arrested during ...

Block numbers listed for some prisoners leaving. Group of prisoners leaving listed as Aktionsjuden / Operation Jews (arrested during Kristallnacht). 2 prisoners listed as leaving also listed as ...

When combined, all these manifestations create an atmosphere that is “eerily reminiscent of the days before Kristallnacht,” Tocar stressed. “We must not underestimate the gravity of these ...

But the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938 eclipses them all, in terms of public significance. In Germany today, those riots of 85 years past are seen as a warning of what may happen if antisemitic ...

(JTA) — The Austrian government inaugurated a $7 million Holocaust memorial monument on the anniversary of the 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms. The “Shoah Wall of Names” that city and central ...

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