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


To avoid repeating history, we must never forget - opinion

After October 7, we cannot return to “normal.” If we forget, we are doomed to repeat history.

 THE WRITER visits Kfar Aza, amid the devastation.

Miriam Litke: A survivor of Kristallnacht and the Holocaust

Born in Berlin in 1927, Litke was saved by joining the Kindertransport to England. Now she has become a noted authority on that period.

 Baby Miriam with her parents, David and Tehila; brother Eli; and uncle Theo.

Portuguese Holocaust museum marks anniversary of Kristallnacht

The ceremony featured the lighting of a memorial flame in front of 500 students from schools across Portugal who took part in the event.

 Michael Rothwell the director of the Holocaust and the Jewish museums in Porto (left) and Sebastião Feyo (right) president of the Porto municipal assembly, with the school students

From virtual reality to digital synagogues, tech adds new dimension to Kristallnacht commemorations

Some Jewish groups are tying their commemorations together with a statement on the current Gaza war — and some are using virtual reality technology to give their projects new dimensions.

 The Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg, Germany once held 1,200 congregants before it was destroyed in Kristallnacht.

Antisemitism is spiraling out of control: We are a step away from harm coming to Diaspora Jews

The lives of Diaspora Jews also came to a halt on October 7. They, too, are at war.

 Revital Yakin Krakovsky

Why is this anniversary of Kristallnacht different from all others? - opinion

The short answer is October 7, 2023 and Hamas’s barbaric, genocidal rampage against Israel. 

 Jews rounded up in Stadthagen after Kristallnacht.

85 years since Kristallnacht, Holocaust survivors say they once again feel unsafe as Jews

Survivors from around the world call out for help in fighting rising antisemitism.

 Pictures of people kidnapped during the October 7 attack on Israel by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas are projected on a synagogue, during a silent march from Cologne Cathedral to a synagogue to mark the eve of the commemoration of Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, 85 years a

85 years since Kristallnacht, Holocaust survivors say they once again feel unsafe as Jews

Holocaust survivor Manya Wallenfels said, “I think twice before I wear my Star of David. I am afraid to go to the synagogue."

 Gabriella Karin, who survived the Holocaust.  “Never since the Holocaust are Jews so threatened," she said.

Remembering Kristallnacht and the Kindertransport - opinion

This year more than ever, our actions both in the Diaspora and in Israel have transgressed against God’s will by our being so deeply divided and disunited.

 An early image of the Orthodox synagogue in Karlsruhe.

85 years after Kristallnacht, Germany to begin rebuilding grand synagogue in Hamburg

The Bornplatz Synagogue, a neo-Romanesque, 1,200-seat sanctuary that was once the largest synagogue in northern Germany, was burned down on Kristallnacht in 1938.

 The Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg, Germany once held 1,200 congregants before it was destroyed in Kristallnacht.