Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht is often referred to as the,
"Night of Broken Glass." The name comes from the violent anti-Jewish pogroms on November 9th and 10th in 1938. Kristallnacht owes it's name to the pieces of glass that lined the streets of Germany from the pogroms. Homes, synagogues, and Jewish-owned businesses were shattered. Reinhard Heydrich gave specific instructions to the rioters that: they couldn't endanger non-Jewish lives or property; they were to remove all synagogues; and police officials should arrest as many Jews as local jails could hold. Rioters destroyed 267 synagogues throughout Germany, Austria and Sudetenland. Although murder wasn't intentional, 91 Jews lives were lost from November 9th to November 10th.In the aftermath of the pogrom, police records documented a high number of rapes and suicides. |
The Zerrennerstrasse synagogue destroyed on November 10, 1938 after the destruction of Kristallnacht.
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