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.
