Kristallnacht in Our Midst The public is welcome to stop by
Xavier’s Gallagher Student Center from 10am – 2pm November 9th,
to remember the 74th anniversary of what is considered the
beginning of the Holocaust. On November 9, 1938 the Jewish of
community of Germany suffered in an attack orchestrated by the
Nazis to destroy Jewish property, burn synagogues and deport
thousands of Polish Jews living in Germany. This night of
horrible destruction and shattered glass came to be known as
Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass. The Nazis viewed
Kristallnacht as a test to see if the global community would
react to such events. It did not, and the Holocaust’s
destruction of lives and Jewish civilization ensued. Had the
global community listened to the sound of breaking glass
throughout Germany, would the events of 1939 – 1945 have been
different? “Glass is breaking even now in our midst,” says Rabbi
Abie Ingber, founding director of Xavier University’s Office of
Interfaith Community Engagement. “Suicides of young g