Kristallnacht

Jewish treasures stolen during Kristallnacht return to Berlin after decades in US synagogue

A Holocaust survivor rescued two stolen Jewish ritual textiles through a postwar barter. Nearly 88 years after Kristallnacht, the artifacts have finally returned to Berlin.

A recovered parochet (Torah ark curtain), one of the historic Jewish treasures stolen by the Nazis nearly 88 years ago, is finally home after being returned to the Berlin Jewish community with the help of Temple Chai, an Arizona synagogue.
Assaf Levitin (right) with Amnon Seelig (left).

Cantor brings Jewish music lost in Kristallnacht back to Germany - interview

A police car is parked behind a yellow tape near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, US May 22, 2025. (illustrative)

Maryland man pleads guilty for mailing violent antisemitic threats to 25 Jewish sites

Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store speaks during a joint press conference with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 25, 2025.

Benjamin Netanyahu rejects request by Norway's Jonas Støre to visit Israel


50 years since UN resolution, the world proves anti-Zionism is actually racism - opinion

Fifty years after the UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 declared "Zionism is a form of racism," the sentiment is still being echoed harmfully worldwide.

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Chaim Herzog lambasts the Assembly after the adoption of Resolution 2279, stating that "Zionism is a form of racism," November 10, 1975.

Adolf Hitler speech blasted out during Kristallnacht ceremony in Austria

As a piece of music was set to be played as part of the ceremony, the Hitler audio was played from a nearby residential building for about one and a half minutes.

German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler doing a Nazi salute

'Moral depravity': Norwegian PM slammed for attending anti-Israel Kristallnacht event

The event was co-organized by the Norwegian Palestine Committee and the local Jewish Voices for Peace and heavily featured anti-Israel discourse and anti-Zionist rhetoric.

Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store speaks during a joint press conference with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 25, 2025.

On this day: 87 years since Kristallnacht, the catalyst of the Holocaust

During the Nazi state-sanctioned pogrom, 91 Jews were murdered, and more than 1,400 synagogues across Germany and Austria were torched.

 Jews rounded up in Stadthagen after Kristallnacht.

87 years after Kristallnacht: It could happen again, says 101 year-old eyewtitness - opinion

We must impress on future generations that until we have succeeded in destroying this destructive steamroller that is antisemitism, there will be little chance for Jewish life to be able to thrive.

RABBI SHMUEL AHARON BRODMAN speaks at a ceremony marking 85 years since Kristallnacht, at the Ohel Jakob Synagogue in Munich on November 9, 2023. After Hitler came to power, Jews were blamed for all the ills of society in Germany, the writer recounts.

Hitler's former Jewish neighbor recounts life in Nazi Germany - report

Now 100 years old, Edgar Feuchtwanger recalls living across the street from Hitler in 1920s and 1930s Munich—and the chilling turn that forced his family to flee.

German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler doing a Nazi salute

Die Tochter einer Kristallnacht überlebender kehrte die Schlüssel einer zerstörten Synagoge zurück

Jetzt, 86 Jahre später, kehrt die Reliquie nach Hause zurück.

 Marianne Bern and the key she kept from the Bielefeld synagogue that was destroyed on Kristallnacht.

From Kristallnacht to Kindertransport: A personal story of hope - opinion

I have vivid memories of my own departure from Germany with the Kindertransport on July 25, 1929, almost one month before the outbreak of World War II.

  THE WRITER, at the age of three, walks with his parents.

Standing proud as a Jew in Europe and finding allies amid antisemitism - opinion

Let us stand loud and proud, and may we learn from history to live in a better future where our hearts never have to skip a beat for wearing a piece of jewelry.

 OPENLY WEARING a Star of David, the writer visits the Berlin Holocaust Memorial this week.

The year is 1938: European Jews, leave now - opinion

From Amsterdam to Madrid, Uber drivers to dedicated WhatsApp groups for antisemitic incidents, Jews have no more business in Europe/

 A woman wrapped in an Israel flag stands outside the place where mayor of Amsterdam Femke Halsema attends a press conference following the violence targeting fans of an Israeli soccer team, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 8, 2024.