Now, 86 years later, the relic is returning home.
Sure, Israel is under attack, has been at war, and it’s far from perfect. But it is the land that will take in and protect Jews, and that is something that didn’t exist in 1939.
The President of the Porto Jewish Community, Gabriel Senderowicz, stated that "Kristallnacht is not part of history but happening today. The way to fight antisemitism is to educate the youth."
While Hannah Szenes is mainly remembered for her poetry, her photographer casts a revealing glance into her time in Israel and before.
The report, which is the first carried out by IMPACT-se on European national curricula, identifies worrying representations of Jews and Israel.
On this 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht, all of us across continents have been newly and harshly confronted with the rising specter of classic antisemitism and its new form, anti-Zionism.
At the rally, Obama asked why Jewish Americans would place their faith in a president “who sat down for pleasantries with Holocaust deniers.”
One of the girl's mothers said it was disgusting that 80 years after the Holocaust, her daughter was being subjected to such horror.
After Kristallnacht, some members of the Nazi regime openly called for the genocide of the Jews. In today’s times, the Iranian regime and its supporters call for the destruction of Israel.
Judessey is a fast-moving and attention-grabbing tale, not without moments of real emotion, told in a series of vivid hand-drawn pictures, embellished with speech bubbles.