70 Years Since Kristallnacht

And this week the world is marking 70 years since Kristallnacht, the night ‏the Nazis unleashed a series of riots against the Jews in Germany and Austria. Our team in Jerusalem is at the memorial ceremony.

And this week the world is marking 70 years since Kristallnacht, the night ‏the Nazis unleashed a series of riots against the Jews in Germany and Austria. Our team in Jerusalem is at the memorial ceremony.

A special glass statue representing a Synagogue destroyed by Nazis was inaugurated during a special ceremony that took place at Jerusalem's "Mishkenot Shaananim" center.

The event organizers say the statue was built in the old traditional Jewish synagogue style and symbolically connects the past with the present.

Rabbi Itzhak Cohen, the Israeli Minister of Religious Affairs says that the Jewish People had suffered horrible crimes in those days but that there was no power that could really destroy this nation.

[Itzhak Cohen, Minister of Religious Affairs]: (Male Hebrew Quote)
"Synagogs and places for Torah studies were burned down according to a timed plan - more than one thousand synagogues. Hundreds of Jews were murdered, three thousand were sent to concentration camps, business places were ransacked and all of this was done out of hatred of the Jewish People. But as you can see we stand here in Jerusalem and the Jewish People survive and last."

The Ambassadors of Germany and Austria both attended to deliver the message that their nations have gone through a significant change in the decades that have passed.

[Dr. Harald Kinderman, German Ambassador to Israel]: (Male German)
"The November Pogrom still gains in meaning...[and] Germany feels obligated to [remember] this. And it is a big sign, that today we are here together, united in our efforts."

Isaac Herzog, the Israeli minister of Welfare, Social Services and the struggle against Anti-Semitism says that these days Israel makes many efforts to stop new surges of Anti Semitism in the world adding...

[Isaac Herzog, Minister of Welfare]: (English Male Quote)
"Spirit of freedom should prevail anywhere around the world, democracy, freedom, civil libirties are very vital for all Humanity."

NTD, Jerusalem, Israel

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Recently a famous German History researcher, Proffesor Meir Schwartz published new findings on Kristalnacht. We will bring you this story soon.

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[MengeleRitusAmgNatns]

krstallnacht is cool

[Yitzhakhazak]

@xARMINIUSx

Really, do you mean that we cannot take out Munich in 22 minutes? But we can, we can! And the warhead can be what we choose it to be! My threat against yours.

[petitekotoizo]

Jews don't bite the hand that feed them, Hardlydangerous....what kind of thinking are you engaged in? Justifying the horrors of injustice and massacre inflicted on innocent masses of people simply because fof their race...Jews shouldn't have had to 'fully integrate'  to escape such inhuman treatment...AND they had no moral obligation to do so. Your ideas are infected with the same distorted reasoning as the Nazis. Shame on you.

[shbarbosa]

It´s really sad that, after this horrible profanation of lifes and religious symbols, we still live in a world infected by all kind of intolerance (Darfur, Bósnia, Sabra and Chatila, Ruanda are just some few examples). But we cannot lose the hope:  tolerance must be a common word in a common world.

[xARMINIUSx]

indeed they dont care what really happend, so let them live their dream, they wil feel it harder in the future....

[Hardlydangerous]

Have you ever wondered why the Germans are/were anti semetic? They allowed jews into their country only to be taken advantage of at every turn.

The jew never intergrated. He called himself a German jew, not a German.

He was, and will always be, first and foremost, a jew. He will always disadvantage non jews in order to support his fellow jews. Is it any wonder they became hated by the very people who gave them a home?

Not even a dog bites the hand that feeds it.