On the night of November 9–10, 1938, the Nazi regime orchestrated state-sponsored violent pogroms against Jewish communities across Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. Known as Kristallnacht ('Night of Broken Glass') due to the shattered windows carpeting city streets, SA stormtroopers, SS units, and Hitler Youth murdered hundreds of Jews, burned 267 synagogues to the ground, desecrated cemeteries, looted over 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses, and arrested 30,000 Jewish men, deporting them to Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen. Coordinated internationally by the UNITED for Intercultural Action network, November 9 serves as a solemn global vigil to remember that the Holocaust began not with gas chambers, but with hate speech, dehumanizing propaganda, and public indifference.
On the night of November 9–10, 1938, the Nazi regime orchestrated state-sponsored violent pogroms against Jewish communities across Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. Known as Kristallnacht ('Night of Broken Glass') due to the shattered windows carpeting city streets, SA stormtroopers, SS units, and Hitler Youth murdered hundreds of Jews, burned 267 synagogues to the ground, desecrated cemeteries, looted over 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses, and arrested 30,000 Jewish men, deporting them to Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen. Coordinated internationally by the UNITED for Intercultural Action network, November 9 serves as a solemn global vigil to remember that the Holocaust began not with gas chambers, but with hate speech, dehumanizing propaganda, and public indifference.
