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WSU’s Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration

WSU’s Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration

As soon as the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933 they established the first concentration camp in Dachau and began to persecute Jews and others that they deemed as opposing their fascist regime. On November 9th and 10th, 1938, in a nationwide program called Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass"), the Nazis and their collaborators burned synagogues, looted Jewish homes and businesses, and killed at least 91 Jews. The Gestapo, supported by local uniformed police, arrested approximately 30,000 Jewish men and imprisoned them in the Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, and Mauthausen concentration camps. Several hundred Jewish women were also imprisoned in local jails.  This brutal action is commonly identified as the start of the Holocaust.  It led to the genocidal murder by the Nazis and their supporters of 6 million European Jews, as well as millions of other non-Jewish victims.   

This year’s Kristallnacht Commemoration features Dr. Ashley Fernandes speaking on “Medicine, the Holocaust, and Religious Ethics.”  Dr. Fernandes is Associate Director, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, The Ohio State University College of Medicine.  

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Monday, November 3, 2014 at 7:30 pm, in E163 Student Union.

This event is co-sponsored by the Zusman Chair in Judaic Studies, the Educational Resource Center, and the Dayton Holocaust Resource Center.

 


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