Tag: holocaust, kristallnacht
Is Kristallnacht being forgotten?
Shana GoldbergNov 05, 2015
Will Kristallnacht be forgotten, relegated to the ash heap of Jewish history, akin to the Kishinev Pogroms, which, let’s face it, no one really talks about anymore —...
Remembering Kristallnacht…75 years later
Rocky Mountain JewNov 08, 2013
Seventy-five since Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when Nazi stormtroopers and ordinary Germans rampaged throughout the Third Reich, spray-painting shop...
Remembering Kristallnacht…73 years later
Rocky Mountain JewNov 09, 2011
Every year the Holocaust is one year further in the past and every year more Holocaust survivors leave this world. Keeping their stories and memories alive is surely one...
Links to…Kristallnacht
Rocky Mountain JewNov 13, 2009
This week we commemorate 71 years since Kristallnacht – the infamous pogrom instigated by German Nazis, which made clear to the world exactly what the National...
Destruction and rebirth in East Germany
Shana GoldbergOct 26, 2009
Memorial to the Great Synagogue of Leipzig, which was destroyed during Kristallnacht, 1938 Last week I conducted an extremely brief and therefore somewhat superficial...
Kristallnacht
Shana GoldbergNov 13, 2008
Kristallnacht — the night of shattered glass. Just take a moment, and think — sense — the word. We’re used to wailing sirens, the squeal of brakes, the odd...