Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum

Germany Remembers Kristallnacht at a Fraught Moment

As reports of antisemitism surge in Germany and elsewhere, commemorations of the Nazi pogrom have taken on special resonance this year.

Solomon Perel, Jew Who Posed as a Hitler Youth to Survive, Dies at 97

His masquerade — a tale recounted in a memoir and in the film “Europa Europa” — saved his life. But “to this day,” he said, “I have a tangle of two souls in one body.”

After 90 Years, a Menorah That Symbolized Defiance Is Rekindled in Germany

A 1931 photograph of a menorah on a windowsill also showed a Nazi flag in the street outside. This Hanukkah the menorah returned to Germany.

84 Years Later, a New Look at the Nazi Attacks of Kristallnacht

Newly released photographs of the assaults on Jews during the 1938 pogrom, which is widely commemorated as the start of the Holocaust, had been kept by a former American serviceman.