Jews in Germany today marked the 15th anniversary of the Nazi pogrom’s of Nov. 9-10, 1938, when most of Germany’s synagogues were burnt to the ground, thousands upon thousands of Jewish businesses and homes were wrecked by Nazi gangs and thousands of Jews were arrested, following the assassination of a Nazi diplomat in Paris by a Jewish student.
In Berlin the Jews today dedicated a monument to the victims of the Nazis on a site near the gutted Fasanenstrasse Synagogue. Stones from the temple destroyed by the Nazi gans were used in the monument. In Frankfurt, Dr. George Salzberger, former spiritual leader of a synagogue destroyed by the Nazis in 1938, returned from London to deliver a memorial address in the ruined building. The RIAS radio network carried a broadcast by Rabbi Leo Baeck, former Chief Rabbi of Berlin, who spoke on the significance of the destruction of the synagogues.
In Bonn, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer today received Dr. Norman Salit, president of the Synagogue Council of America. Dr. Salit is the first Jewish religious leader to visit Germany as a guest of the German Government in 20 years.
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