19389–10 November 1938 · Berlin

Kristallnacht, the November Pogrom

The gilded dome of the New Synagogue on Oranienburger Straße, saved from burning on Kristallnacht — Photo: Ansgar Koreng. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Across Germany and Austria on the night of 9 November 1938, Nazi stormtroopers and their supporters burned synagogues, wrecked Jewish shops and homes and attacked Jews. Some 30,000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps, including Sachsenhausen, and the community was made to pay a collective fine. In Berlin, local police saved the New Synagogue from the flames.

Holocaust & Remembrance
Jewish Heritage
Berlin, Germany

Sites

Site 1: New Synagogue, Oranienburger StraßeRestored gilded dome and façade, now the Centrum Judaicum museum.Map ↗
Site 2: Jewish Community House, FasanenstraßeFragments of the synagogue burned in 1938 set into the entrance.Map ↗