Holocaust Survivors Remember Kristallnacht

They were children in 1938. Now, 80 years later, they reflect on the Night of Broken Glass-the turning point in the Third Reich that would change everything.
This film was produced by the Leo Baeck Institute. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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[@vegbeth]

Thank you for sharing these important and painful stories and memories. We need to listen well, so we can prevent any repetition of this. Too many scary similarities nowadays. As is the Jewish saying, for the victims of the Holocaust, may their memories be a blessing.

[@fionafiona1146]

Pleas extend it to members of other (local) minoritys, I as a German see people who are brown being pitted against those of love economic status.

[@ussliberty4631]

Never heard of it

[@YoshliFan]

As a german I feel terribly ashamed of the past. This should remind us that we need to come back together as one people and stop the ridiculous divides in our countries.

[@nice1365]

@Nationalist man you really did run through all these remorseful and apologetic comments and politicize them in the very worst way

[@anamorrawska5462]

YoshliFan Don’t feel ashamed. Half of the Germans were actively against the Nazi regime. The rest was just scared. Many German concentration camps workers committed suicide. Hitler put the soldiers and civilians on drugs similar to cocaine. He also sent children to war after he ra; out of adults. The German folks were put in an impossible situation. There were some psychopaths but every nation has them.

[@anamorrawska5462]

Eric Smith so they murdered millions of all ethnicities and you think this was just and bc you think so, you will be going to a death camp in your next life. Believe me.

[@antifasciste.geldberg4830]

@@johnnyspin6346 I am sorry that you are a holocaust denier. maybe your parents dont love you much

[@johnnyspin6346]

@@antifasciste.geldberg4830 are you a nakba denier?

[@nepadron]

People DO NOT learn from history -- history is doomed to be repeated over and over and......

[@cindyqueen7228]

yeah, people don't even want to discuss it. sad

[@jimthompson939]

Not wholly true. I am watching this video because somebody taught me.

[@Palikkalintu]

First as a tragedy, then as a farce

[@garyberki822]

Hey Sauron Merciful. It was Empty Hatred You Illiterate. There is No Reason for This. That's Right. You just Hate a People who are better than You. You blame People for Your Loser Life.

[@tishhill9561]

n. p. Fanya Felenon said,: "They're human beings". Human beings, not alien monsters. THIS is the "human" race we belong to. Brutal. Verbally and physically brutal. Horrific species.

[@Andrea-ys2ji]

Jan 10, 2021 -- 9:32, her message hit home....boy did it hit home!

[@barrymarootner504]

100%. And if we ask any questions we’re shamed and made to be crazy. Last 2 years I’ve watched a lot of survived stories and all their stories are warnings to us to not let it happen again. Sadly a lot of people are falling into line.

[@corrynthiaiam9205]

All of us in America need to listen to this..It sounds like a warning of today.

[@sandy4498]

Corrynthia I AM it’s happening so slow and we don’t see things as one but little Isolated things

[@technonecroplays]

Watching this after the attack on Capitol building, spot on!! Everyone needs to see this!

[@amylee8969]

People today complain about masks mandates meant to protect their safety! Imagine having to wear a star for the public to harass and target you as being "inferior". And NOT having the luxury to complain to aithorities without getting a beat down or worse.......shot!

[@georgebrown8312]

Not only America but the rest of the world needs to learn the lessons of "Kristallnacht", or "The Night of Broken Glass".

[@Shagyamum]

@@amylee8969 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

[@selinasalinas7711]

Not all germans were bad.. My grandpa Kurt Kochel left germany cuz he didnt accept the anti semitizm

[@marcelaaron8385]

almost eveyone knew about tehe atrocities

[@oliverfletcher6707]

No one is arguing that

[@gabrielarivas586]

Oh yeah for sure. Not all are bad. The ones that refused the Nazi regime were also condemned to working in a labor camp.

[@alexanderscott2456]

Most Germans were passively indifferent or supporters of the Nazi regime. They bear total blame for the sanction that they gave the Nazi state, the atrocities carried out in their names.

[@johnnyrod9262]

There were many Catholic Priests who would not accept the Nazi's and spoke out against the Gestapo. They were sent to Concentration Camps as well

[@smithmcsmith9218]

I wish nothing but the worst for people who compare this to the covid regulations.

[@haleyslight]

Your anger is displaced, those who oppose the slippery slope of our human rights being stripped and doing so to avoid horrors like these repeating. Next it could be vaccinated vs unvaccinated.

[@smithmcsmith9218]

@@haleyslight Please learn history.

[@haleyslight]

@@smithmcsmith9218 Please also learn history as I continue to do so. Thanks

[@amylee8969]

@Smith McSmith I feel zero amount of sympathy for people offended by that! Anti maskers are detached from reality. Mask mandates for instance is nothing compared to holocaust. That gold star Jews wore was NOT meant to protect their health and safety! It was meant to allow Nazi's and non Jews to bullying, target, and knock innocent people to the ground! Meanwhile, Jews didn't have the luxury of complaining about "freedom of choice". If they dared, they'd be shot or rounded to on a train to a concentration camp immediately.

[@chrishusman6183]

I love Doctor Ruth Westheimer forever. She's my heroine.

[@till_the_end_of_the_line3280]

thank you so much for sharing ❤️

[@VespaRav]

Many thanks for compiling these first-hand testimonies. However, please have someone correct the errors in the captions.

[@whatadamnusername]

1:09 Rrrrrrollerskates!

[@InvisibleVicky]

Why are people made to feel different. Just because of their faith?

[@Vanillevirus]

This was about purity of race and ethnicity. They also killed mentally deficiet German kids at therapy centres and physically disabled German adulty. They were insane

[@chalkdemon8019]

I just figured I would watch this since America experienced a whole summer of it in 2020.

[@Henrik66]

1:07 how tf does she make that sound

[@jeremiahstraight6301]

Rolling her tongue 😝!!!

[@Fyodor48]

cupo, you are an ignoramus; that said you are not irredeemable. May I recommend a short book, titled “The Tobacconist” For me I would make it compulsory reading in schools.

[@pdubzpyro]

Fyodor48 you’re upset about this? Don’t say no, or the ad-hominem wouldn’t be there... wtf?

[@rippspeck]

@@jeremiahstraight6301 Not at all. That hard German R is done with the throat, no involvement of the tongue.

[@Reesus_]

love the pfp

[@georgebrown8312]

Thank you for the video of "Kristallnacht". It teaches us what happens when we harbor the toxic ideology and dangerous hatred such as anti-Semitism and bigotry against other groups of people.

[@mollyben3223]

🇮🇱 beautiful people ❤️

[@pottingsoil]

@@OmarOsman98 True.

[@Fireman4066]

I completely disagree. Just go look at what the Talmud says about non-Jews.

[@air2091]

Tj Reeder just go look at what the Quran says about non Muslims, just go look at what the bible says about non christians

[@queensigal]

And Tel Aviv cinematque chose this date to remember 30 years to the fall of the Berlin wall

[@OlympicLeprechaun]

Now do an interview of Germans who had to live through the Weimar republic.

[@chelliahthaiyal1217]

i never forget wat grandma said those greedy power crazy people have to be watched ☹️

[@jascuraza5422]

while the victims and all of comfort women on the same era in the southeast Asia were never given a formal apology by the Japanese. shame shame

[@jakewhoskate]

Look up the Tulsa race riot in America. Not much different... Racists in America are pretty much the same as Nazis.

[@rippspeck]

The parallels between the so-called Tulsa "riots" and Kristallnacht are stunning, indeed. I'm sure every liberty-loving American is able to grasp that.

[@topcat1048]

God bless them all

[@glendaharris7219]

The survivors speak truth. Especially that we are suspicious of those who are different, we believe fake news that can be the demise of our values. Push political views often... God help us. This can certainly happen again.

[@clovergrass9439]

Sure....

[@cindysandbeck2447]

God help us all. History repeating, we are losing our rights. GOD HELP US ALL

[@alenelevin1757]

This was very moving to me as i am jewish.

[@rositahuff4858]

…for the ….who did this to precious people…I hope there is a place called Hell!

[@SudheendraRao26]

2022?

[@sergelauper5472]

Ironically we are all a family, we are all Jewish... the heart is important. If Abraham was Jewish, how could anyone not be? Think about it. Don't be too strict... Kristallnacht is horrible. The biggest sin? Hate... kill sure, big sin. But it's only the body. But lies, hate, deceit? Those are big sins. And (Orthodox) Jews are not free of it. Don't mistake yourself for something you are not. Bye now. Shalom, Serge Lauper. I'm Jewish btw and Christian. My first and only rule: well... biggest rule: Love! Love your neighbour as yourself. Take care.

[@margaretroselle8610]

God’s richest blessings on the Nation of Israel.

[@kratoleaf7619]

Is that the "sex doctor" being interviewed? Dr. Ruth?

[@clovergrass9439]

1030 documented locations, all for similiar reasons. No wonder.

[@caroltenge5147]

At 0:26, yes he had jewish and non jewish friends. That is wonderful, BUT he was a not a zionist. You cannot go hating a person because they are Jewish, or any other religion. Just because theres a mafia do you hate all Italians? Of corse not. So then dont blame the Jewish familys who have nothing to do, or arent even aware of Zionism, or the Protocols of zion. You are not being fair and open minded. I wish all peoples could be friendly to each other, but the world just isnt that way.......

[@Tony-Injection]

The protocols of Zion is fiction, not even made by jews you ignoramus.

[@garyberki822]

Hey carol tenge. There is no Protocols of Zion It is a Fiction. It was wrote by Your Fellow Anti-Semites. You are really an Ignoramus.

[@shoulders-of-giants]

Austria and Bavaria are not better now than they were then.

[@fionafiona1146]

I hope they are even if the right populist got 40 +% in the Austrian presidential elections and 13% in Bavaria, the green Partys with their left views beat them.

[@uptonsinclair8215]

@@fionafiona1146 Greens: Boycott...Divestment...Sanctions.

[@fionafiona1146]

@@uptonsinclair8215 How isn't that responsible action? I don't know what to say, since there is no equal investment proposal across Europe as the green ones, Sanktionen as last resort wouldn't be needed for.

[@Ganbakodon]

I like your name! haha

[@Fyodor48]

The Jews, the apple of Gods’ eye, His chosen people. *Please Never Forget You Are Loved* My prayer is that you are reconciled to God the Father through your Messiah Yeshua HaMashiac As a child in 1954 my neighbors were Jewish, an elderly couple who were super kind to me. My friend Samuel during the first three years of my schooling always had to leave the class when we were taught NT Bible stories. Even as children Sammy and I new the differences between us, not that it made any difference. Good Times.

[@rippspeck]

You know what's ironic? The nazis believed themselves to be the chosen people, as well. No point using that term, it's meaningless.

[@ussliberty4631]

NEVER FORGET THE *USS LIBERTY*

[@Fyodor48]

@@rippspeck my apolgies i never recieved notification of your reply!! the term 'Chosen People' is i would assert, far from being meaningless, indeed tis the very opposite. God chose for His reasons the Jewish people, for it was through those very people that the Saviour of mankind was to come, and indeed did. That is indeed the very opposite of meaningless, Well it is to me and to billions of others.. But 【ハンス・フリッツ] as we have free will, we can agree or not, that is our inalliable right my friend.

[@Fyodor48]

@@ussliberty4631 Whilst any loss of life is awful, this was a time of war for Israel *i am no apologist for every Israeli action i am mearly looking objectively at the incident* the USS LIBERTY was according to available literature a spy ship, Israel was at war for its existance, now whilst they apologised and paid millions of dollars in reperations, they also climed they thought it a disguised Egyptian ship, now personally i dont believe a word of that!! tis more likely the truth that they were worried that the Americans would be listening in to their communications as they made war manouvers. It is interesting however that the American government told the battle carrier (who answered the distress call from the LIBERTY) to desist and return and not go to the assistance of the USS LIBERTY, which does give pause to ponder were the Israelis right in that (not that it was an Egyptian ship) but it was others who were spying on their communications, *at a time of war* Just as in the first Gulf war, do we think for a minute there were no civilian and other casualtys when the allies, us brits and the americans launched their attacks!! *fog of war is a messy business*

[@RE-nv4we]

The Jews are not "Chosen". We're all equal. Take the lesson from the Holocaust, no one is superior to anyone, no one is chosen or better or above, we're all the same, if you fail to do so, it's no different than what the Nazis did, "we are the chosen ones", they thought the same.

[@chervineamouie3146]

History must never be forgotten so such despicable crimes against Humanity never happen again. Therefore The Jewish people from all around the world, the IDF and Israel will always have my support and love. God bless The Jewish People, God bless The IDF, God bless Israel ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️✡️✡️✡️✡️✡️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@TheWordMercy82]

And from the 1938 "Night of Tears" SUPERMAN was born to wreak havoc on fascism for 87 years strong! Oooooh Aaaaaah!

[@beautifulworld7940]

🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@buharikanor1709]

Every action that man does, there is a reaction that follows it ; the jews put Jesus to accursed death and thus brought upon them a curse, Jesus cursed them by the blood of all the righteous people shed on this earth, see Mt. 23 : 29 downwards, the jews themselves admitted the curse, see Mt. 27 : 1 downwards.

[@wfr1108]

totally real

[@charlesparrish2831]

Shmelta shmelta

[@NumberOneChina]

"power crazy people have to be watched early on" that's ironic considering who's saying it

[@JosannaMonik]

I'm pretty sure if Trump could get away with it, he would have us all say "Hail Trump".

[@rivierarocket]

@Chana Bayla I'm wondering if this is a fake account. No content on your page.

[@uptonsinclair8215]

The inconvenient fact is that ALL of us bear a shame; there is nothing unusual about the Germans: “There is a commonality there, and a fear on my part ...”-former CIA director Michael Hayden, pointing out the similarity of Trump’s anti-Mexican concentration camps to Birkenau, June 16, 2018, to CNN’s “New Day."

[@pammcdan]

A ridiculous notion. Trump is always clapping for the people who get out to see him. Is he energized by those supporters? Validated? Of course he is! All the “elites” in media and policies NEVER give him credit where it is due. They try to beat him down in every possible way, but he still wants to serve the people and keep our principles and rights safe from power hungry mobs.

[@JosannaMonik]

@@pammcdan I do understand that Trump as a president has to get along with all leaders, but his admiration and adoration for Kin Jung Un is almost sickening and this man is worst than Hitler. But to each his own...

[@bluebirdie_]

Looks like BLM and Antifa are the ones who've had their repeated versions of Kristallnacht, so might want to rethink who's doing the oppressing.

[@timlamiam]

Homo homini lupus est

[@pottingsoil]

Probably should have made this video twenty years ago when the survivors would have had something worth-wild hearing.

[@goosemamas]

Potting Soil What they’re saying is worthwhile now. Don’t be ignorant.