By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israel on Sunday marked the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or "Night of the Broken Glass," a series of Nazi-incited riots that began their campaign to destroy European Jewry, leading to the murder of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.
Holocaust survivors, their descendants, academics and the German and Austrian ambassadors to Israel took part in a ceremony at Yad Vashem.
At the weekly cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Kristallnacht was "the turning point toward the inevitable destruction of a greater portion of the Jewish people in Europe between 1939-1945."
He said Israel "will never forgive or forget" the crimes of the Nazi regime.
President Shimon Peres issued a statement on Sunday, calling the Holocaust the "worst disaster that ever happened to us."
if(catID != 151){
var cont = `Take Israel home with the new Jerusalem Post Store