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Kristallnacht Commemoration
(PDF) (DOC) (JPG)October 19, 2022
Kristallnacht Commemoration
Featuring Ramapo-College Students
Congregation Beth Haverim Shir Shalom
Mahwah, NJ
At the synagogue on November 9, 2022 at 7:00 PM
Watch the LiveStream of this Event Here
View our Students’ Story Maps Here
Destroyed interior of the Fasanenstrasse Synagogue, Berlin. Photo via Wikipedia.
Ramapo students will visit Congregation Beth Haverim Shir Shalom (Mahwah, NJ) on November 9 to commemorate the eighty-fourth anniversary of Kristallnacht with a research presentation.
Ramapo College students enrolled in Dr. Jacob Labendz’s course on the Holocaust are producing virtual “Story Maps” based on the testimonies of survivors who witnessed Kristallnacht. All of the testimonies come from the collection recorded by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College and feature survivors who built lives in our region. The testimonies are available for viewing on Ramapo Campus thanks to the Fortunoff Archive for Video Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University.
Kristallnacht (also known as “The Night of Broken Glass” and Reichspogromnacht) was a nationwide pogrom against the Jews of Germany on November 9, 1938, instigated, supported, and defended by the Nazi Party, which had held power since 1933. According to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Over the next 48 hours, violent mobs, spurred by antisemitic exhortations from Nazi officials, destroyed hundreds of synagogues, burning or desecrating Jewish religious artifacts along the way. Acting on orders from Gestapo headquarters, police officers and firefighters did nothing to prevent the destruction. All told, approximately 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses, homes, and schools were plundered, and 91 Jews were murdered. An additional 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Nazi officials immediately claimed that the Jews themselves were to blame for the riots, and a fine of one billion reichsmarks (about $400 million at 1938 rates) was imposed on the German Jewish Community. Click here for the full article.
This commemorative event is free and open to the public. All are welcome.
For questions about the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, contact director Jacob Labendz: (201) 684-7409 / holgen@ramapo.edu
For questions about visiting Congregation Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, contact Iris Greenberg: (201) 512-1983.
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