Why should you remember Kristallnacht?

Throughout the Jewish world, there were meetings this week to commemorate Kristallnacht – the night of the broken glass – which took place November 9 to 10, 1938. That night, most synagogues throughout Germany, Austria and the by then annexed Czechoslovakian Sudetenland were plundered and set alight. Thousands of Jewish businesses were destroyed and almost 30,000 Jews were sent off to concentration camps.

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