It’s such a helpless feeling to be a continent away from this kind of disaster, and the sight of a burning synagogue triggers deep anguish in the heart of any Jew. So, I dashed off a note.

Kristallnacht is one ... are being encouraged to keep a light burning all night. Eli Ballon is the Administrator and Beadle of the New West End Synagogue (NWES) in London. "At the NWES, we will ...

Kristallnacht made American front ... reports from every section of the country told of the burning and dynamiting of synagogues and demolition and looting of Jewish shops. The reports indicated ...

It’s important to remember that Kristallnacht was the first and only large-scale pogrom in Nazi Germany. Jews had been deported and tortured since the Nazis came to power in 1933, and there were open ...

Instigated by the Nazi regime, rioters in 1938 attacked the Jewish community in Germany, burning hundreds of synagogues and vandalising Jewish schools and businesses. "Kristallnacht" means "night ...

It also marked the upcoming anniversary of Kristallnacht — "the night of ... "As I looked up, I saw my synagogue burn. Where ...

(JTA) — The comparisons are easy to draw: broken glass, burned buildings, shuttered businesses, dead Jews. Eighty-five years after Kristallnacht ... the massacre sites, burning that echoed ...

drew parallels between Friday's firebombing and Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, which resulted in the burning of more than 250 synagogues in Germany and elsewhere in 1938. She said ...

On Kristallnacht in 1938 ... Francois writes about watching a synagogue burn down near her house, finding fragments of Torah scrolls, watching neighbors try to gather the desecrated relics.

Elsbeth Rosenfeld talks about Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) - an organised nationwide attack on Jews - and compares it to a declaration of war. After a description of the horror of ...

I cannot explain." Kristallnacht marked a turning point in the Nazi regime's organised persecution of Jews. On November 9 and 10, 1938, Nazi soldiers raided Jewish-owned businesses, homes and ...

Attending the B´nai B´rith event at the New Israelite Congregation [in the Montevideo ... that is “eerily reminiscent of the days before Kristallnacht,” Tocar stressed.