Police Leaders to Gather in Berlin for International Kristallnacht Commemoration

Police leaders gather in Berlin to address rising antisemitism for Kristallnacht anniversary

George Shefi, 94, one of the last surviving witnesses to Kristallnacht, is expected to speak at the gathering alongside Jochen Kopelke, chair of the German Police Union.

Protecting Jews is a test of democracy

Eighty-eight years after Kristallnacht, I stand in a Berlin synagogue at a Kristallnacht commemoration convened by the International March of the Living. Alongside German police officers and their international colleagues, I think of my own ancestors and those of my husband; the ones who survived the Holocaust and the ones who did not. Could they have imagined such a gathering more than eight decades later?To commemorate the November 1938 pogrom…

Police leaders to gather in Berlin for international Kristallnacht commemoration

The November 5 event will bring law enforcement leaders and Jewish community representatives together to reaffirm their commitment to confronting antisemitism, extremism and hatred

Germany cannot close the book on the Holocaust

This week, police leaders from Germany and abroad will gather in a Berlin synagogue to commemorate Kristallnacht. On the night of 9–10 November 1938, at least 91 Jews were murdered, synagogues were set ablaze, Jewish businesses were destroyed, and tens of thousands of Jews were arrested across Nazi Germany. This was a pogrom orchestrated by […]