Kristallnacht Remembered In Berlin March

More than 200 rabbis from across the world have marched in silence from the Brandenburg Gate to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht.

The rabbis, from 30 countries, held memorial candles as they walked the short route between the two landmarks just before midnight.

Organisers said it gave rabbis an opportunity to reflect privately on what was also known as the Night of Broken Glass.

Kristallnacht saw a series of coordinated attacks carried out against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on November 9 and 10 in 1938.

A rabbi walks through the Holocaust Museum

The attacks were carried out by the Sturm Abteilung - the Nazi Party's paramilitary wing - as well as non-Jewish civilians. Scores of Jews were killed and thousands of Jewish businesses and synagogues ransacked as the authorities looked on and did nothing.

"We paid homage to the victims of the Holocaust last night we paid homage, and we remembered Kristallnacht," said Pinchas Goldschmidt, chief rabbi of Moscow and president of the Conference of European Rabbis.

"We came tonight to this Holocaust memorial in the centre of Berlin to remember the six million victims of the Holocaust.

"Jewish religious life is back, and the learning and studying of the Torah is also back in Berlin. This is what we are celebrating as well during these few days in Berlin."

The rabbis were in the German capital to participate in the 28th convention of the Conference of European Rabbis, the main rabbinical alliance in Europe.

Seven hundred religious leaders from Europe's mainstream synagogue communities are participating in the event, designed to maintain and defend the religious rights of Jews in Europe.

The anniversary of the infamous pogrom fell on November 9/10.

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