Every night in occupied Palestine is Kristallnacht.


Cartoon by Carlos Latuff

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German icon Max Schmeling, World Heavyweight Champion 1930 - 1932, died in 2005 aged 99. He refused to endorse Nazism, despite being feted by Hitler after knocking out Joe Louis in 1936. We now know that during the 1938 Kristallnacht, Schmeling saved two Jewish boys.

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In memory : Wrocław, then Breslau, ca. 1910

The Great Synagogue from 1865-72 !

It was, next to the New Synagogue in Berlin, the largest synagogue of Germany and Austria. During Kristallnacht on November 9-10, 1938, Nazi militants burned down the synagogue.

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Today marks the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass.”
Photo: Burning synagogue on Kristallnacht. Hildesheim, Germany. November 9, 1938.

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On the heels of the murder of eleven congregants at Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, today is the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 NAZI pogrom against German Jews. C&G Partners developed “1938 Projekt: Posts from the Past”: https://t.co/aPDuxK2hda

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