Kristallnacht aka “The night of broken glass”

Jewish Synagogue burning down

November 9, 1938By: Wes Markwood

(Silinski, and Ellis)

12,000 -17,000 Polish Jews were herded across the border from Poland to Germany.

Map of Germany and Poland

“Map of Central Europe”

The Polish Jews were taken to military stables where the conditions were horrible. They were not fed

for days.

Polish Jews’ corpses laying in a Nazi military stable

“The Destruction of Jews of Romania”

Herszel Grynszpan

On November 7, 1938, Herszel Grynszpan; a Jew who lived in Paris, France, shot and killed German Embassy official Ernst Von Rath in Paris, to send a message to the Nazis for forcing his parents out of

their homes.This event caused a spontaneous attack against the Jews.

(Silinski, and Ellis)

(Silinski, and Ellis)

Two days later, the Nazis burned down 1,350 synagogues.

91 Jews were killed, and 30,000 Jews were taken to concentration camps,

where they were tortured for months.

7,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed,And thousands of homes were ransacked.

Jewish Synagogues burning

 

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