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


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.

This week in Jewish history: Kristallnacht and Israeli campaign in Gaza

An abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars.

 An explosion and smoke are seen after members of Hamas security forces destroyed a missile, which witnesses said was fired by an Israeli plane during an eight-day conflict, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip December 13, 2012.

Echoes of Kristallnacht remind us to stand strong against antisemitism’s resurgence - opinion

Like Kristallnacht, October 7 revealed Hamas’s genocidal intent to destroy the State of Israel and kill as many Jews as possible.

 A WOMAN holds a sign that reads ‘never again is now’ at a march marking the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht last year in Berlin.

Jewish students prevent Austrian far-right speaker laying Kristallnacht wreath

Protestors held a banner that read, "The word of those who honor Nazis is worthless."

 A WOMAN holds a sign that reads ‘never again is now’ at a march marking the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht last year in Berlin.

'This is what globalize the intifada looks like': Global leaders react to Amsterdam pogrom

"In terrible historical irony, this is happening two days before the anniversary of Kristallnacht in 1938, when Nazi-sanctioned and led pogroms against Jews erupted across the German Reich."

Protesters running after Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam

Revisiting Kristallnacht with rising global antisemitism - opinion

On this 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht, all of us across continents have been newly and harshly confronted with the rising specter of classic antisemitism and its new form, anti-Zionism. 

 ‘STOLPERSTEINE’ (Stumbling Stones) memorialize Rosa and Abraham Hacker, great-grandparents of the writer, in Dortmund, Germany.

Global silence on Iran's calls to kill Jews draws Nazi-era comparisons - opinion

After Kristallnacht, some members of the Nazi regime openly called for the genocide of the Jews. In today’s times, the Iranian regime and its supporters call for the destruction of Israel. 

 A WOMAN holds a sign that reads ‘never again is now’ at a march marking the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht last year in Berlin.

Claims Conference unveils future of Holocaust education in mixed-reality Kristallnacht experience

“There’s a lot of ways to communicate with people about Judaism and the history of Jewish people and the history of antisemitism that people care about. People are interested. People want to learn.”

 Students at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, NY walk through the new Claims Conference Holocaust VR experience which places them inside Kristallnacht, the night of Broken glass

Austria heading for stormy Kristallnacht ceremony with new parliament president - analysis

Some Jewish representatives have already announced that they will boycott the event due to the presence of far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) member Dr. Walter Rosenkranz's presence.

 The newly elected president of the National Council Walter Rosenkranz holds his first speech during the constitutional session of the Parliament in Vienna, Austria, October 24, 2024.

Henry Wuga, survivor and Holocaust educator, dies at 100

Wuga worked as a ski instructor for the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen’s Association, teaching veterans who had lost limbs how to ski.

 Henry Wuga, a Holocaust survivor who died at 100.