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


'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.

Urgent lessons from Kristallnacht’s history after Amsterdam’s pogrom - opinion

Today, maintaining a stable order is crucial to preserving liberty. The pogrom in Amsterdam should serve as a wake-up call and a mandate for action.

 MACCABI TEL AVIV soccer fans arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport on Friday, after they were flown from Amsterdam on an El Al emergency rescue flight. The pogrom in Amsterdam should serve as a wake-up call and a mandate for action, says the writer.

A survivor kept the key from a German synagogue destroyed on Kristallnacht

Now, 86 years later, the relic is returning home.

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

Thousands of students commemorate 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht at Oporto Holocaust Museum

The President of the Porto Jewish Community, Gabriel Senderowicz, stated that "Kristallnacht is not part of history but happening today. The way to fight antisemitism is to educate the youth."  

 Holocaust Museum Director Michael Rothwell and British Ambassador to Portugal Lisa Bandari speaking to Portuguese schoolchildren in the museum.