Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht

Eyewitness to World War II

Nearly 8,000 Jewish-owned businesses, schools, hospitals and homes were destroyed during one night of brutality in November 1938. German Nazis and their supporters took to the streets of Germany and Austria bent on destruction. They burnt hundreds of synagogues to the ground, killed more than 100 Jews and sent 30,000 more to concentration camps. Kristallnacht, “the night of broken glass”, would mark the beginning of the Holocaust.

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Angie Peterson Kaelberer – Raintree