(JEWISH GROUP) Kirstallnacht, Night of Broken Glass, November Pogrom
(THIS IS A PROGRAM FROM JEWISH STUDIES AT EMORY UNIVERSITY)
On the night between November 9 and 10, 1938, the Nazi authorities unleashed a pogrom across the Third Reich, encompassing Nazi Germany, Austria, and parts of former Czechoslovakia in response to the murder of the Nazi German diplomat in Paris, Ernst vom Rath, on November 7. The news that the Jewish youth of Polish origin Herschel Grynszpan shot Rath reached the Nazi leadership in Munich where they commemorated the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. The antisemitic onslaught destroyed lives and property, left Jewish communities deprived of their synagogues and ceremonial objects, and continued in mass deportations and financial deprivation. About 30,000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps and the Jewish community was heavily fined to cover the reconstruction. The government that incited the aggression forced the victims to take financial responsibility while their property and insurance policies were taken from them.
The following list of recent publications available from Emory Libraries and other institutions aims to assist readers in learning about this event. Kristallnacht is commemorated annually all over the world. November 9 and 10, 2023, marks the 85th anniversary of these pogroms.
Archives and Museums:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's encyclopedia entry "Kristallnacht" offers a wealth of information and includes links to various items in the museum's collection.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remember Center's online exhibition on the November Pogrom is available here.
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Kristallnacht was not the beginning of hatred. It was the moment the world stopped pretending not to see it.
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