Friday , November 15 2024
Home / Tag Archives: Kristallnacht

Tag Archives: Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht: Lights left on to mark 80th anniversary

Between 9 and 10 November 1938, more than 1,400 synagogues and prayer rooms, thousands of Jewish-owned homes, hospitals, shops and cemeteries were damaged or destroyed across Nazi Germany and Austria. At least 91 Jewish people were killed and an estimated 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps at Dachau, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. It does not look like much has changed in the last 30 years and indeed has worsened for Jews and...

Read More »