On the nights of November 9 and 10, rampaging mobs throughout Germany and the newly acquired territories of Austria and Sudetenland attacked Jews in the street, in their homes, at their places of work and worship, and destroyed their shops. This has come to be called Kristallnacht, “the Night of Broken Glass.”
Rabbi Jordan Millstein and the community of Temple Sinai have invited us to join them in their Shabat service on Friday evening, November 9, at 6:00 P.M. This is a great opportunity. The evening will begin with dinner and conclude with the Shabat worship service, including a remembrance of Kristallnacht. If you can attend, please give your name to Mary Ann in the Church Office by November 6 at rectory@nullolmc.us or 201-568-0545.
80th Commemoration of Kristallnacht
at Temple Sinai, Tenafly NJ
Friday, November 9th
Complimentary dinner 1t 6:15PM and Service at 7:30PM
Followed by a Tribute to Sister Rose Thering
Presented by Alan Silberstein
Sister Rose Thering led the effort to rid the Catholic Church of antisemitism and contributed to a historic declaration by the Vatican.
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“Almost immediately upon assuming the Chancellorship of Germany, Hitler began promulgating legal actions against Germany’s Jews…On October 28 [1938], 17,000 Jews of Polish citizenship, many of whom had been living in Germany for decades, were arrested and relocated across the Polish border. The Polish government refused to admit them so they were interned in ‘relocation camps’ on the Polish frontier…Among the deportees was Zindel Grynszpan…[whose] seventeen-year-old son, Herschel…[assassinated] Third Secretary Ernst vom Rath…The assassination provided Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Chief of Propaganda, with the excuse he needed to launch a pogrom against German Jews…On the nights of November 9 and 10, rampaging mobs throughout Germany and the newly acquired territories of Austria and Sudetenland attacked Jews in the street, in their homes, at their places of work and worship, and destroyed their shops. This has come to be called Kristallnacht, ‘the Night of Broken Glass’.”
Source: www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org