This webinar for teachers explores how an old album, containing photos from the Kristallnacht Pogrom, was found and kept by a Jewish soldier who served in the US Army in Germany during WWII.

Registration is available here for the webinar led by Sheryl Ochayon, Echoes & Reflections Project Director for Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Education. The album was donated to Yad Vashem in 2022.

Nearly a year before the outbreak of World War II, between 9-10 November 1938, German and Austrian mobs looted, torched and vandalized many Jewish-owned shops, businesses and homes. In just a few hours some 1400 synagogues were set ablaze and destroyed. Jewish citizens were viciously attacked and publicly humiliated. 30,000 Jewish men were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. The November Pogrom called Kristallnacht ("Crystal Night" or "Night of the Broken Glass" claimed the lives of 92 Jews.

Additional primary source newspaper articles on Kristallnacht are available through the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's project History Unfolded. 

German SS and SA forces desecrating and pouring gasoline on furniture in a Synagogue in the area of Nuremberg during the November Pogrom riots

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