Tigermedia - 2020 Kristallnacht Commemoration: November 1938 as a Turning Point?
2020 Kristallnacht Commemoration: November 1938 as a Turning Point?
Date: November 10th, 2020
Duration:
1h:14m:32s
This lecture took place on November 10, 2020 and featured Dr. Peter Hayes for the 12th Frederick M. Schweitzer Lecture, “November 1938 as a Turning Point?”. Dr. Hayes’ talk focuses on the November 1938 incident known as Kristallnacht, when Nazis in Germany set fire to synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools, and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, also called the “Night of Broken Glass,” approximately 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. There is a short performance by the West Point Jewish Chapel Choir before the lecture. This event was co-sponsored by the Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) at Queensborough Community College; the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College; and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at West Point Academy. For more information about the KHC at Queensborough Community College, please visit http://khc.qcc.cuny.edu