Eighty-four years ago, a wave of mass violence against Jews in Germany and Austria began to escalate the Nazi persecution.
Thousands of Jewish businesses, homes and synagogues were attacked, and nearly 100 Jews were killed in the violence.
About 30,000 Jewish men were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it was the first time that Nazi authorities arrested Jews en masse specifically because they were Jewish.
Unpublished photos of the November 1938 pogrom (violent wave of attacks on Jews) are now referred to as the ‘Night of Broken Glass’, which became known because of the broken glass scattered in the streets. has been released to the market.
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Image: YAD VASHEM
Image: YAD VASHEM
The photos were taken by two Nazi photographers in the German cities of Nuremberg and Fürth.
According to Jonathan Matthews, head of the photo archive at Yad Vashem, the Israeli memory center that released the images, these photographers were an integral part of the event.
Image: YAD VASHEM
Image: YAD VASHEM
Image: YAD VASHEM
The photo album was given to Yad Vashem by the family of an American Jewish soldier who served in Germany during World War II.
According to the memory center, he never mentioned his experiences during the war.
When her granddaughter Elisheva Avital opened the album, she felt like they had “made a hole in it.” [suas] hands”.
Image: YAD VASHEM
Image: YAD VASHEM
The pogroms of 9 and 10 November 1938 are often considered the starting point of the Holocaust, in which Nazi Germany killed six million Jews.
Matthews says the photos show that the violence was organized by the state, and that it was not “the spontaneous event of an angry crowd” as the official narrative at the time suggested.
source: Noticias
