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


Dutch Protestant Church apologizes to Israel for role in Holocaust

Dutch Protestant Church spokesman Peter de-Boer said “unfortunately, Christian theology contributed much to the antisemitic discourse that led to the events of the Holocaust.”

Dutch Ambassador to Israel Naor Gilon (left) is seen shaking hands with Duth Senate President Jan Anthonie Bruijn.

CNN's Christiane Amanpour compares Trump-era to Kristallnacht

“After four years of a modern-day assault on those same values by Donald Trump, the Biden/Harris team pledges a return to norms, including the truth,” she said.

Christiane Amanpour

The real lesson of Kristallnacht was the world's lack of reaction

Remarks by the World Jewish Congress president at the WJC Theodor Herzl Award Virtual Gala

UN SECRETARY-GENERAL Antonio Guterres attends a session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 24.

Rabbis, politicians, imam commemorate Kristallnacht in Malmö

“It is not only glass that is broken, it is the heart.”

Rabbis, politicians, imam commemorate Kristallnacht in Malmö

Schneier: World leaders’ silence after Kristallnacht a ‘shameful monument'

In Bahrain, which is participating in global Kristallnacht commemoration, ‘a tolerant society is very much part of the social fabric,’ says rabbi.

Rabbi Marc Schneier in Abu Dhabi

Rivlin commemorates Kristallnacht with Austrian, German presidents

"Even dealing with the new virus, which demands solidarity and collaboration, has not managed to obliterate the old plague, the plague of antisemitism," President Rivlin said.

President Reuven Rivlin during his opening remarks, Nov. 9, 2020.

Commemorate Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass - WATCH LIVE

Leaders share messages against antisemitism, hatred and intolerance.


European synagogues keep on lights to mark 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms

On Nov. 9, 1938, Nazis in Germany and Austria unleashed pogroms that killed dozens and wounded thousands following the assassination of a German diplomat by a Jewish gunman.

Malmo's synagogue lit up for the 81st anniversary of the Kristallnacht on November 9, 2019.

'Never Again' rings hollow in 2020

In the 21st century, people are still being murdered, synagogues and Jewish shops are being attacked, and graves in Jewish cemeteries are being defaced.

People take pictures of a light symbol, marking the place where Viennese synagogues once stood before they were destroyed, after a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, also known as Night of Broken Glass, in front of a then destroyed Synagogue in Vienna, Austria November 8, 2018.

New synagogue announced at Babyn Yar on eve of Kristallnacht commemoration

Kiev’s first new synagogue since Ukrainian independence in 1991 will be built at Babyn Yar, the site where almost 34,000 Jews were massacred by the Nazis in September 1941.

Kiev’s Great Choral Synagogue