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Remembering Kristallnacht

By Lisa Hostein · November 4, 2008

Seventy years after Kristallnacht, ceremonies around the world will mark the Night of Broken Glass, the horrific prelude to the Holocaust.  JTA's archival reports from the time provide a chilling reminder of the terror of the time. As do personal accounts like this one by Paul Oestreicher in the Guardian.

While post-war Germany has done much to confront its past and memorialize its victims, anti-Semitism continues, as some German students found in research that has turned into a traveling exhibit.

At the same time, many countries are not doing enough to confront anti-Semitism and other hate crimes, an official with Human Rights First, an organization that monitors hate crimes, argues in a JTA op-ed.