Events that happened during the night from the 9th to the 10th November 1938 activated the Hitler’s devilish plan to eliminate completely one population.
The excuse of the Crystal Night was a attempt of a Jew, Herschel Grynszpan, to kill a secretary of the German embassy in Paris, Ernst von Rath.
During this night many Jewish synagogues and cemeteries were plundered, the shops of the Jewish people destroyed and books significant to the Hebraic religion publicly burnt on squares. The window glasses of the Jewish shops shined when they were being broken so this is the reason the night got its unusual adjective the Crystal.
It is Saturday afternoon, 10th of November 2007, 69th anniversary of the Crystal Night. By the Old-New Synagogue in Prague are gathering people to memorize the tragic event. But it is not so easy to get this day to the Jewish center. The neo-Nazis under the name of New National Democrats announced their march and against them are ready to protest the ultra-left radicals. Close by the Synagogue are standing lines of policemen and the water cannon.
But the people who want to express their piety to the victims are not discouraged, on the other hand, in this way they also want to reject any form of Nazism and violence. Wearing a symbolic David star on their coats are singing, led by the rabbi Sidon, a prayer for the martyrs while the scream of the extremists is heard by the Synagogue. The police has the whole Jewish quarter under control, nobody from the Nazis or the anarchists can get there. Representatives of many institutions, politicians and other persons of the Czech culture sphere joined The Hebraic community to show their compassion with the victims of holocaust. Cardinal Vlk in his short speech mentioned: ‘By my presence here today I express my solidarity in a serious danger that some people reject or deprecate the terror of holocaust or even they are adopting the ideas that caused it.’
The excuse of the Crystal Night was a attempt of a Jew, Herschel Grynszpan, to kill a secretary of the German embassy in Paris, Ernst von Rath.
During this night many Jewish synagogues and cemeteries were plundered, the shops of the Jewish people destroyed and books significant to the Hebraic religion publicly burnt on squares. The window glasses of the Jewish shops shined when they were being broken so this is the reason the night got its unusual adjective the Crystal.
It is Saturday afternoon, 10th of November 2007, 69th anniversary of the Crystal Night. By the Old-New Synagogue in Prague are gathering people to memorize the tragic event. But it is not so easy to get this day to the Jewish center. The neo-Nazis under the name of New National Democrats announced their march and against them are ready to protest the ultra-left radicals. Close by the Synagogue are standing lines of policemen and the water cannon.
But the people who want to express their piety to the victims are not discouraged, on the other hand, in this way they also want to reject any form of Nazism and violence. Wearing a symbolic David star on their coats are singing, led by the rabbi Sidon, a prayer for the martyrs while the scream of the extremists is heard by the Synagogue. The police has the whole Jewish quarter under control, nobody from the Nazis or the anarchists can get there. Representatives of many institutions, politicians and other persons of the Czech culture sphere joined The Hebraic community to show their compassion with the victims of holocaust. Cardinal Vlk in his short speech mentioned: ‘By my presence here today I express my solidarity in a serious danger that some people reject or deprecate the terror of holocaust or even they are adopting the ideas that caused it.’
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