College campuses across North America will mark the 61st anniversary of Kristallnacht with programs centered on screenings of Steven Spielberg’s 1999 Academy Award-winning documentary, “The Last Days.” To commemorate the Nov. 9-10, 1938, pogrom in which Jewish stores in Germany and Austria were attacked, several affiliates of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life in the U.S. and Canada will also have Holocaust education programs and speakers.
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