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On the night of Nov. 9, 1938, shattered glass littered the streets of Germany and Austria. Synagogues burned, Jewish-owned shops were looted, and terrified families hid in their homes as Nazi mobs rampaged through their neighborhoods. It became kn…
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November 9th, 1938, the Night of Broken Glass, also known as Kristallnacht
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It was the official declaration of war against German and Austrian Jews by the Nazis
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a beginning of the Holocaust, ultimately claiming the lives of more than 6 million Jews
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It was a night three men will never forget. It was because of the Kristallnacht and what happened that the Jewish people in England
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decided that they must save Jewish families from Germany and get them out as quickly as possible
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During that night, the Nazis killed 91 Jewish people and damaged 7,500 Jewish businesses
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1,400 synagogues were destroyed. That night, as many as 30,000 Jewish men were arrested
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Many of them were taken to Dachau or Buchenwald. Following that night, Alexander became part of
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Kindertransport, a rescue plan to get all children out of the country. For Walter Bingham
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he remembers the horrors he experienced as he walked to school the next morning
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And as I neared the synagogue, the school rooms, I saw there were lots of people
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and there was the synagogue smoldering, in fact, because, of course, the actual fire was laid very
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early in the small hours of the morning So by that time it was down to some less smoldering mess Bingham was just 14 at the time He ran home to contact his mother
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Of course, I went back to where I stayed and quite shaken, of course. And I contacted
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my mother because my father had already been deported early on to Poland, and I never saw
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him again. For George Sheffey, his mother's orders were clear. My mother said to me
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tomorrow you're going to go by train, by ship to see another country, very beautiful and wonderful
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and decide which toys you want to take with you, and I'll pack your clothes
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but she packed my clothes, no room for the toys, that was the elf toys
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And we went to the railway station early, early in the morning. All three men experienced horrors, ultimately surviving an unimaginable night
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They come together to share their story, emphasizing it must never happen again
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We decided, the three of us, unanimously that we must do it. It's important for us to do it and to do everything in our power to ensure that there will be no repeat, both of Kristallnacht and of 7th of October
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For Straight Arrow News, I'm Diane Duenas
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