72 years ago today.
What a very sad time in history.
Kristallnacht
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Showing posts with label Kristallnacht. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Monday, November 09, 2009
WOW..............
Along with The Berlin wall coming down, today also marks the night in Germany called Kristallnacht. What a terrible terrible night.
My family left Germany long before this happened. I think my Great-great Grandpa came over in the 1860's--he fought in Civil war.
I posted about it last year here
Great site to read
Seventy-one years ago, on November 9–10, 1938, the Nazis staged vicious pogroms—state sanctioned, anti-Jewish riots—against the Jewish community of Germany. These came to be known as Kristallnacht (now commonly translated as “Night of Broken Glass”), a reference to the untold numbers of broken windows of synagogues, Jewish-owned stores, community centers, and homes plundered and destroyed during the pogroms. Encouraged by the Nazi regime, the rioters burned or destroyed 267 synagogues, vandalized or looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, and killed at least 91 Jewish people. They also damaged many Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes as police and fire brigades stood aside. Kristallnacht was a turning point in history. The pogroms marked an intensification of Nazi anti-Jewish policy that would culminate in the Holocaust—the systematic, state-sponsored murder of Jews.
My family left Germany long before this happened. I think my Great-great Grandpa came over in the 1860's--he fought in Civil war.
I posted about it last year here
Great site to read
Seventy-one years ago, on November 9–10, 1938, the Nazis staged vicious pogroms—state sanctioned, anti-Jewish riots—against the Jewish community of Germany. These came to be known as Kristallnacht (now commonly translated as “Night of Broken Glass”), a reference to the untold numbers of broken windows of synagogues, Jewish-owned stores, community centers, and homes plundered and destroyed during the pogroms. Encouraged by the Nazi regime, the rioters burned or destroyed 267 synagogues, vandalized or looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, and killed at least 91 Jewish people. They also damaged many Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes as police and fire brigades stood aside. Kristallnacht was a turning point in history. The pogroms marked an intensification of Nazi anti-Jewish policy that would culminate in the Holocaust—the systematic, state-sponsored murder of Jews.
Sunday, November 09, 2008
70 years ago.............
Kristallnacht happened. What a terrible terrible time in our history.
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
---Sir Edmund Burke
Today is also the day the Berlin wall came down in 1989. I have a piece of the wall. Friends of mine were there and brought home pieces of the wall.
Berlin Wall
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
---Sir Edmund Burke
Today is also the day the Berlin wall came down in 1989. I have a piece of the wall. Friends of mine were there and brought home pieces of the wall.
Berlin Wall
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