The Latest Breaking News from Kristallnacht

Police and the owner of a kosher restaurant disagree over the motivation behind a recent act of vandalism which occurred on the anniversary of a Nazi pogrom.

Johanna Neumann was 8 when she witnessed a mob of local citizens and Nazis vandalizing the Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg. They were “shouting and throwing stones at the marvelous glass windows,” as she later said in an oral history interview. Other students at the Jewish school nearby described a mountain…

Kristallnacht marked with speeches and ceremonies, and chancellor decries spate of antisemitic incidents

Late in 1938, Nazis across Germany attacked Jews and their homes, businesses and places of worship and arrested about 30,000 Jewish men. The attacks became known as Kristallnacht – the “Night of Broken Glass” – for the streets littered with broken glass from the vandalism.

Finance Minister Sigrid Kaag invited to Kristallnacht commemoration despite funding Palestinian terror group

Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial has acknowledged that a series of photos from Nazi Germany’s 1938 pogroms against Jews have been seen and published before, revising a claim it made when releasing the photos last week

The fast-food chain urged its German customers to treat themselves to commemorate the anniversary of Kristallnacht.

Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass - was named because of the shattered glass that littered the streets after the vandalism and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues, and homes

Restaurant sent a message urging customers ‘treat themselves’ on anniversary of the 1938 ‘Night of Broken Glass’.