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Vol. LXVI No. 9 Omaha, Nabr.
By Bdibi Bcnard & Baakaa (Copyriglit IMS. J0wkh Ttlignpkk Agmty, ImeJ ST. PAUL. MINN. Kriatalbacht, "Night of the Broken Glass," is so named because of th« masor windowB , fafefandmingthewidaaiinad ' attadu on the Jews by Naki solditfs and the indtad Qtrman pofmlace. No eaoqdsto tally of the de, Btroctka of Jewish propetty and the harm caused to Jews exists, but even a conaarvative reckoninit is horrifyinp Thirty-thoaaand Jews arrested and sent toconoentratkn campa; 816 Jewiah ahopa destroyed; 191 synagoguea (set afin, with another 76 compiatdy dtatroyed. HMofBdai eq^lanatkn for
this actkn was in rsaponia to 'the aaaasainatica of Ernst i vom Rath, third secretary of
the German Bmbasay in Paris, by a young Jew named Hersehd Giynaqtaa lie boy was driven to deaparatMO because he learned his father was among thousands of Jews depwted to Poland in sealed box cars. Whan 17-year-old Grynszpan heard of tiM terrible joui^ ney and the inhuman conditfams of his family, be brake down. HM actkm was hia w^r to aipreashis rage and proteat the awful auflecing visited upon his dear oi^. The Nazi aetkms were far from "apontaneooa." The night before, Goabbek notified Nad Party cfalefa to prepare a pogrom. Heydrich, the head of the Gestapo and the Crimfaial PoBoa. tategraphed spedfie iastruetkaia sa to how the outrage was to be ot^ ganiiad.
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Hie following are the eiaet words of the Gestapo taleprintw message: "At very short notice, action will take place against Jews, especially their synagogues, throu^iout Ger many. "Preparations are to be made for the arreat of about 20,000 to 30.000 Jews in the Rt«ch." Ilwra was a nSiy (tf about 30,000 Nazis in Nuremberg on the eve of KiistaDnacht. They handed out hatchets, and Germans were given pwmiasion to do whatever they, wanted to the Jews. Thay thsn farced their way into Jowiah bomss, beat, humUiatad and kOled Jews, and stds and deateoyed Jewish property.'' ' One Jewish woman saw an architact amaah the fnmititra
Lerner and Yale named By Joaaia JacohSlin Fedaratto pabHe ralatlaM fcectar Gitaick. preeitbaJewUi Fedaraof Omaha, annotmrad «hat Jay Laraer and DoaaU Yale wiU chair tha 1989 Ifen'a Fadaratloa CampaigB. Mra. Gitaick made JOetobvBMitiMofthaFadfntkm Board Md at UM JIaWah Ciomawiaity C—tar. '^ "Wakayaanawdiractar, ba^nnifff and naw aaki Mr. Yala i«mtlDtarvisw."Both I war* on the h Coaamittae that Howard Btoon. and lovbadaraUpiatha wUl thai
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of a home he had built for her 12 years earliar. In anothar Jewish apartmant, a baantifol grand piano was smashed to pisoas and evaiy string cut In ons Jewish diiU'a room the anna, lags and head were torn off a doll. T6 add ontrageooa inault to demonk personal injury, the German govenmaot imjweed a on»hfllioo naika fine on Jawa. Thtv eonfiaeated all Jewiah iosorance claims. Thin rrmifd thf Iwiginning point in the treatment of JtnfB. It waa the true beginning of what wouU be^ne "The Final SoluUon." Deapite the incitement and (arodty of the mobs, a few Christian church leaders did speak eat faoUly. Ignoring the Gestapo qiies in hia cfanrefa. Father Lkhtenbarg of St. Hadwig'a Cathe-
Exit polls ByHaghOkgei TEL AVIV. Nov. UJTA) — The Ukud bloc expresaed conirianra Tuaaday ni|^t that'tt ooold form a new govammsBt, while the Labor Party «aa reported to be dapoeaad and uncertain it andd bbek t LAud move. Thai two paatiae''aateaaMaate of the vatiag Tuaaday, which oooU ehoiwe oaca baBota are actaafiy counted, ware baaad on nplita of exit poUa takan at 48 kicaliona in laraaf. ba«iRning at 8 pjn., kical tJitM>^ two hoora More the official poUa doairf. TlMiEaaaeal oonDguratkm pradktad by tha exit polls waa 40 aaata eech for the Labor MMl Likud, tabor <Caatlaaai«aiPiMa7)
dral in 6ei)in said, "llie synagogue outside is burning, and that, also, is a House of God. Do not let yourselves be deceived by un-Christian thoughts. Love your naighlKir as yourself," In Munich, Cardinal Faulhaber warned, "History teaches us that God always punishes the tormentors of the Jews." Biahop Wurttemberg wrote to the authoritiee, "What is happening weighs heavily on the consdenca of all Christiana. A day will come when we will pay for all this." He saw aa "just retribution" the screaming Allied bombe that gutted homee and churches aiui put to flight thousands of Germans. But it must be kept in mind that ckMe to half the population of the Greater R^ waa
CadMlife liba. hi the main, their leaders were silent. The other part of Germany was Protestant, having been conditioned by Martin Luthar'a vehement and coarse anti-Snnitiam. In BQ other century, with the exeqition of czarist Russia, was the clergy and the population so servile to the authority of the state. However KrfataDnacht, and all the horror that foUowed, did not occur in a vacuum. Earlier that summer, representatives of 32 nations met at Evian, a French town on Lake Geneva, to consider the plight of the Jews. All spoke and expnesed thair country's sympathy with the victims of German persecntioo. But all ragntted that social and economic conditions in their (Continaed on Page 7)
Zorinsky honored The late V.B. Senator Edward Zorinaky will be honored Nov. 10 at 10 ajn., dur ing a radaaignation ceremony at the Federal BuiUing. 215 North 17th atreat At that time, the facility will be named the Edward Zorinaky Federal Building and a broaaa bnat of tha Senator coaaaiiaaloaMd by Ma irfdow. Cam Zorinaky, win be unveiled. The aeolptare, prapered fton phBtiigmiH of the wnator, haa baaa eraatad try Bobsrt Baika whoae «9riu inchide Albert Binstain. John F. ITiMitj. Oolda Meir. Abba Sban and Dr. Chaim WaixmiBB. Mr. ZorfaMhy aarved in the U.& SsBata Inm 1976
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