Berlin's Jews remember 1938 "Kristallnacht"

10 November 2005

November 10, 2005

Berlin’s Jewish community has marked the anniversary of the Nazi pogrom against Jews and synagogues on 09 November 1938. About 250 Jews and non-Jews walked down a street that once held many Jewish-owned stores. Speakers, including Albert Meyer, the Jewish community’s outgoing president, and Michael Friedman, a board member of the Jewish Agency for Israel, urged vigilance in the face of recent anti-Semitic vandalism in Berlin and demonstrations by neo-Nazis in other German cities. Some onlookers said they appreciated being reminded of this chapter of history on a day that also marks the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.