December 2022: Kristallnacht News Update
Thank you again for signing the Kristallnacht declaration. The first week of every month, we will send a few stories about Kristallnacht and the Holocaust that made the news in the previous month, and towards November 2023 we will share information about Light Up The Church 2023.
Holocaust survivor recalls 'Kristallnacht,' fights holocaust deniers/antisemitism
Holocaust survivor Betty Grebenschikoff, who experienced the November 1938 pogrom "Kristallnacht" -- or the Night of Broken Glass -- while an eight-year-old girl in Berlin. Her family fled Germany only weeks later, as her father was about to be arrested by the Gestapo. But her grandparents perished at Auschwitz.
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Vandals Break Menorah at Site of Kristallnacht Destruction
The city once had a shul and Jewish community of 350, but the shul was destroyed during Kristallnacht, and the Yidden were deported over the years of 1940-1942.
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Man honoured for Holocaust education says Kristallnacht saved his life
Kristallnacht was a wave of Nazi-coordinated violence against Jews across Germany in November 1938 that is so called because of the debris left from the destruction of Jewish properties and synagogues.
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Nazi camp secretary found guilty in potentially final Holocaust trial
A German court convicted a former Nazi camp secretary of complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people during the Holocaust, in what is likely to be the last process connected to Nazi crimes against humanity in Germany.
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Holocaust Memorial Ceremony 2023 - International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust
The United Nations Holocaust memorial ceremony will be held on 27 January 2023 in the United Nations General Assembly Hall, under the theme "Home and Belonging".
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International Holocaust Survivors Night 2022 - Claims Conference
Holocaust Survivors Honored in Worldwide Chanukah Celebration.
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Project preserves Holocaust survivors’ memories
His family’s lone Holocaust survivor, Shapiro understood the importance of telling his painful story.
