Kristallnacht

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

Some of the letters, which were sent between March 2024 and June 2025, threatened arson or explosive attacks on the sites.

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

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.

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

German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler doing a Nazi salute

Adolf Hitler speech blasted out during Kristallnacht ceremony in Austria


Wall of Names Holocaust memorial unveiled in Vienna

The already existing Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial's design is ambiguous and did not include the names of the victims, unlike the new one.

 A person points at the Shoah Wall of Names Memorial bearing the names of 64,000 Austrian Jews who were killed in the Holocaust ahead of its opening in Vienna, Austria November 9, 2021

MKs, German leaders mark date of Kristallnacht

The anti-Jewish riots known as Kristallnacht happened 83 years ago.

MKs, German leaders mark Kristallnacht’s 83rd anniversary in the Knesset, November 9, 2021

Why we haven't solved antisemitism yet - opinion

Tuesday marks 83 years since Kristallnacht when anti-Jewish demonstrations broke out across Germany, Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia.

 MEMBERS OF the Austrian Armed Forces adjust a wreath during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht in front of the Holocaust Memorial in Vienna in 2018.

Synagogues destroyed on Kristallnacht to be digitally ‘reconstructed’

Digitally reconstructed synagogues will be projected on buildings in Germany during a commemoration ceremony for Kristallnacht.

Illustrative image of a synagogue.

France joins March of the Living initiative commemorating Kristallnacht

From the Walls of the Old city in Jerusalem, to Jerusalem square in Paris.

 Élie Korchia

Poland joins March of the Living initiative commemorating Kristallnacht

International March of the Living launched the ‘Let There Be Light’ global initiative in which individuals, institutions and houses of worship leave their lights on during the night of November 9.

 Rabbi Michael Schudrich.

Hungary joins March of the Living initiative commemorating Kristallnacht

The Great Synagogue in Budapest will be illuminated throughout the night and messages from Holocaust survivors, leaders, and students from around the world will be projected onto its walls.

Dohány Street Synagogue, Budapest

83 years after Kristallnacht, antisemitism is again rising - opinion

This week, Jews all over the world commemorate the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass,” named after the windows of Jewish businesses and homes that were shattered in 1938.

 MEMBERS OF the Austrian-Jewish community attend a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht on November 8, 2018, in front of a synagogue in Vienna that had been destroyed.

Jewish leaders take park in March of the Living initiative commemorating Kristallnacht

This initiative continues against the backdrop of rising antisemitism already witnessed throughout 2021. 

 International March of the Living to commemorate Kristallnacht

Second generation Holocaust survivors speak about 'Kristallnacht'

The story of the Hale Family, by Kevin Hale.

 In the photo left Franz Lewin, later Frank Lewin 1925 Breslau - 2008 Princeton.  Lisebeth Tockuss Lewin 1897 Breslau - 1969 New York; Max Lewin 1892 Guttentag (Dobrodzien) - 1973 New York. Ilse Lewin Irène Hale 1929 Breslau - 2006 Long Island.