STRASBOURG, November 9 (FENA) - Eighty years ago Jewish homes, synagogues, stores, cemeteries, hospitals, schools were demolished, burnt or looted across the Third Reich in what became known as the Kristallnacht or Night of Broken Glass, reminded in her Facebook post the Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Dunja Mijatović.
During three days of pogroms, thousands of innocent people were chased, attacked, and many were killed. In the aftermath, 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps just because they were Jews.
It was the beginning of the cruelest and ruthless period of Europe’s recent history.
As anti-Semitic feelings and attacks rise again in Europe and worldwide, we must all honor Kristallnacht’s victims, reflect on the meaning that this tragedy still bears on our society and recommit to combating all the contemporary forms that hate takes to dehumanize the Other, wrote Mijatović.
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