Germans pass by the broken shop window of a Jewish-owned business in Berlin that was destroyed in 1938 during Kristallnacht, or the ‘Night of Broken Glass.’ That year, from November 9 to November 10, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues and vandalised Jewish homes and schools. Photo: CNS / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md. On Monday, November 9, we commemorated the life of Bergen-Belsen survivor, Tomi Reichental at the Mansion House in Dublin. Tomi dedicated his later life to educating children in Ireland on the subject of the Holocaust. November 9 was also the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the nationwide Nazi pogrom against the Jews of Germany, Austria and…
