On Nov. 9, 1938, the Nazis, among them many ordinary Germans, killed at least 91 people and vandalized 7,500 Jewish businesses during Kristallnacht — the “Night of Broken Glass.”
how antisemitic speech led to actions that nearly saw the mass extermination of Jews in Europe in the last century."It started for me when I was 8 years old, and I could not understand why my best friends were shouting bad names at me," she said.
On Nov. 9, 1938, the Nazis, among them many ordinary Germans, killed at least 91 people and vandalized 7,500 Jewish businesses during Kristallnacht pogroms across Germany and Austria. They also burned more than 1,400 synagogues, according to Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.10th November 1938: Three onlookers at a smashed Jewish shop window in Berlin after the attacks of Kristallnacht.
By the end of World War II in 1945, the Nazis and their henchmen had murdered 6 million European Jews. "Relaunching this campaign goes beyond commemorating Kristallnacht," said Greg Schneider, the Claims Conference’s executive vice president. "With the growing prevalence of Holocaust denial, distortion and hate speech on social platforms, the core message behind the #ItStartedWithWords campaign becomes even more important: The Holocaust did not start with camps, ghettos and deportations; it started with words of hate.
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