H eadlines
the Nazis segregated Jews
into ghettos and declared the
Final Solution.

This is why, Kutas said, it’s
vital to remember every step
that led to the Holocaust, and
to recognize every present-day
outbreak of antisemitism.

That first task becomes
even more important as the
remaining Holocaust survivors
die, she added.

“How do we relate these
stories when we are 80-some
years after Kristallnacht?”
she asked.

The event was one answer.

The 50 or so attendees were
young and old, men and
women, Jews from the city and
the suburbs.

Mark Steinberger
of About 50 people gathered for the Kristallnacht remembrance event at the Holocaust Memorial Plaza on Nov. 9. Philadelphia said he still
Photos by Joseph Bradley
has his father’s 1938 copy of
a New York paper reporting
The Nazis only got to that the rule of law in 1934. The next Jews of their citizenship.

point after years of foreshad- year, he passed the Nuremberg
All of that happened Kristallnacht.

“It was the expansion of
owing. Hitler became chancellor Laws, which forbade Jews from before Kristallnacht — and
the suffering that led to the
in 1933, then made his own word marrying Germans and stripped Kristallnacht occurred before
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