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November 11, 2022

Newly Discovered Photographs Reveal the Realities of Kristallnacht

A well-organized attack, carried out in the public eye.

To mark the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht—the two days of coordinated attacks on Jews and Jewish property throughout Germany that left nearly 100 dead, and some 30,000 sent to concentration camps—Yad Vashem made public a recently acquired batch of photographs documenting the event. The photographs were found in an album that had been in the possession of an American Jewish World War II veteran, and was recently donated by his heirs. Ilan Ben Zion writes:

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