| On the night of November 9-10, 1938, mobs throughout Nazi Germany participated in a wave of pogroms that became known as "The Night of the Broken Glass" (or "Kristallnacht"). During that night 171 synagogues were damaged or destroyed, 7,500 shops and businesses belonging to Jews were ransacked and vandalized, 91 Jews were murdered and another 30,000 transported to concentration camps. Kristallnacht was the most severe perpetration of violence against German Jews until the deportations and mass murders during the war. (See Stamps of Israel Encylopedia and Catalogue (CD-ROM), SweetChild Software, 1998. Article entry for "Kristallnacht".) |
