My father, Heinrich (Chaim) Blitzer, owned a huge men's clothing store in Berlin, and he had worked all his life to build up this store--and he told me how his store was looted and utterly destroyed on Kristallnacht. The police hunted for him, my mother and 2 sisters, to deport them to a concentration camp, but a Righteous Gentile risked his life to hide them in his attic, until my father and mother and sisters were able to emigrate to America in Feb. 1939. On Kristallnacht, my uncle, Yosef Wassermann, was rounded up with other Jews and deported to a concentration camp, where he was murdered. My grandparents, 5 aunts and uncles in Berlin, were later deported to concentration camps where they were murdered. My mother was the sole survivor of her family. Shattered like the glass of Kristallnacht, was my family. We should never, ever forget. In 1995, I went to Berlin to visit the apartments where my family had lived, and it was a very emotional experience for me.
-- Chaya Blitzer

....for evil to triumph the only thing necessary is for good men to remain silent. God give us the courage to speak.
-- bill flinter

This is one of the worst events in the world and one of the most remeberable events. It is a good thing that this is so remeberable because if it wasn't then it could happen again and maybe again after that. I just want to say that I am very, very sorry it happened and I hope that no one anywhere or anytime has to experince anything so awful evr again
-- Ali

Let us always remember those who went down in the Holocaust for it is thier memories that will prevent a second one.
-- Orli

I don't understand how people can hate so strongly. How do you hate someone you don't know? My mission is to continue to teach awareness of the holocaust and human rights violations of their time, and hope that they understand and stop prejudices in their lives.
-- Lois Philpot

As young adults, we hear of the horrors of the Holocaust and thestories break our hearts. It's unimaginable the pain that you have endured. We see that you are courageous and honorable people and very strong rolemodels, with a message that says " Keep Your Faith". You truly inspire us and we know that God has blessed you.
-- Meghan and Kristyn

I never knew my father-in-law Adolf Cappel whose shop in
Elberfeldt/Wuppertal, Germany was smashed on Kristallnacht and who was sent to concentration camp and served as a slave laborer in a Panzer factory on the Eastern front until he was sent back to Auschwitz and shot near the end of the war.
-- John Fisher-Smith

What happened to all the victims of the holocust should never happen again. We can never forget we must not forget we owe it to all thoese who perished. Rest in Peace We will see you again
-- Nadean

I am only 13 years old and i have read about 6 books on the
Holocaust. I am disguisted by the things that went on in the 30's and 40's. I have been intersested in the Holocaust since the 6th grade. This period of time was a very sad one and it brings tears to my eyes when i watch movies about this time. Hitler was a very cruel man and if there is anymore Nazi youth out there please stop and think what you are doing. I am not Jewish but I am a young lady who does not want this type of thing to ever happen again. I can read about this type of thing and think of what those people might have felt like and not even come close to what went through these peoples minds. I myself do not want to go through something like that and I am sure there are a lot more people who don't either. Thank you and remember the Jews.
-- Ashley

It hurts me deeply to know people can hate others enouph to kill them,just because they are different than they are. Tragedies like this is caused by ignorance.
-- Lisa Bell

I remember studying about this while I was a History Major in college and I just remember the sadness that I felt. I still feel it. The desecration of the Torah and the Shuls. How horrible. I see this same spirit growing here in America each and every day and what are Jews going to do about it? I am converting to Judaism and I am a Black woman of 45. I have spoken out and I'll continue to do so. To all of the people who lost so much during that time, I remember you in my heart. I'll never forget!!!!!
-- Ann Taylor

For all of those consumed in firey hell
For all to whom the sounds of shattering glass
was the demolition of their world.
To remember that they are not just a number even to remember is not enough we must never never never let this happen again.
-- Yehudit

What happened during the Holocaust and Kristallnacht was terrible. I hope that this will never happen again to any other races in History again. No one should die because they are thought of as being a threat to another race.
-- Stephany

I am deeply affected and pained that such atrocities could occur in our "civilized" world. But Jehovah God is still on His throne and He will prevail. I find small comfort in knowing that most of the people who committed these atrocities are burning in hell.
-- Debbie Parker

Around and around and back again to their birth in the beginning and to our death in the end. I AM ASHAMED TO HAVE A GERMAN NAME...please never let this happen again.I'm sorry for actions of my ancestor, of whom I have no pride.
-- Sara Beckman

May god bless and give strenth to every one who lost a love one and i am truly sorry for your lost.
-- Randall Wright

No political ideas, no religions shuold have or take the right to kill or to destroy the LIFE OF A MAN. They did it for millions of people!!!
-- Roberto

The Jewish race should never have been allmost eradicated.
--Robbie Nitzky

I am the daughter of Holocaust survivors. It is my goal in life to teach my students the horrors of the Holocaust so that this may never happen again. I do this for the blessed memory of my grandparents, as well as my father's eight brothers and sisters who were murdered at the hands of the Nazis.
Zahor- Remember
--Adele Black

It is a unthinkable horror that no one spoke out against these acts of violence until it was too late.
-- Emily D.

I feel terrible about what happened and I hope next time, if there is a next time, that very few people will die and there will be no concentration camps.
-- M. B.

Never forget what happened over in Germany. Hitler was very power hungry and would stop at nothing. He blamed the Jews for his own failure. If we ever blame other people and get power hungry we would most likely have another war. Then more people would die. I feel terrible about what happened to the Jewish people and I hope it never happens again. No more camps or endless slaughter. We are very lucky that we never lived through that war.
-- Meagan Brew

I will always remember this......god bless
-- Kathleen

I have been learning about the Holocaust and I just get so upset to just learn about how all the Germans did nothing while all those Jews were being killed. I hope that a thing like this will never happen again. It is such a tragic thing that has happened
-- Jaci Brognia

The stories of the millions of Jews killed during the period of the Holocaust has truly moved me. I pray that histroy does not repeat itself in this gruesome, terrible way.
-- Dapo

As a student I have taken the option to write a paper on the Holocaust.I realized that it was a time that faith was really tested.I learned numerous things that I myself shared with my peers. My heart goes out to those that survived and even more so to thoes that didn't. I will never forget.
-- muneca

Hitler created the closest thing to hell on Earth. No one ever should have to feel the hatred of so many, or the extreme hatred of that one man.
-- Caleb Phillips

The Holocaust was a terrible event that happened because of bystander mentality. I for one will never sit back and watch something like that happen. Especially because that could have been me because I am Jewish.
-- Meredith

Everyone needs to remember that tragic night when the innocent people were violated and stuff
-- Anonymus

The pain they must have felt
The pain they were forced through
Can not amount to anything
That has happened to you

To remember these times
Only will bring a tear
And to think of what might happen
Is causing everyones fear

So just listen to your heart
And go with you beliefs
Dont sigh when something happens
OR cry along with your griefs

On that night
The night that it begun
THe night when people died
Began the anti-semitisum that is never done
-- Anonymus

We are just beginning our segment on the Holocaust, and it is a shame that not only Jews were mistreated but twins also. It is SO cruel and Disgusting that the stormtroopers and Nazis not only ruined their homes, shops and churchs but also shattered their self-respect by humiliating them. As if sending them to concentration camps to get diseases and starve to death isn't enough!
-- Kala

I think it was a very bad thing they did to the jews that day! It was very very sad, i wish it would have never happened but we can't help that now. I pray for the loved ones of the ones who suffered and were forced to give their lives. I hope all the Jews live happy and healthy lives for now and for eternity!!!
-- Cody Nelson

How gould Hitler have done such a thing? He had one of the most powerful armies in the world and instead of useing the armies for something that does matter he decided to kill a religion. Faith, no matter what religion it is, is more important than any mortal. It's sad that any one had to go through that at all. People died for no reson but religion.
-- Katie

I really hope that you will have a good life and I hope that yall are gald that you survived and i think it was wrong what hitler did and he shouldn't have done it. I am a Jehovah's Witness and I think it is totally wrong what they did.
Thanks,
Yours truly
-- Christina

My Grandfather, Ellsworth A. Griffith, faught in World War II.
Luckily he didn't die, but he did a few years later because of Lung Cancer. He had lung cancer because he smoked too many cigaretts during the war becuase that's all they gave him to calm him down.
-- Ashley and Griffith

Luckily, as far as I know, there was no one in my family who was involved in the Holocaust, but I'm doing this for a school project and it really means a lot to me.
-- Anonymus

I am studying kristallnacht for some as level cousrwork and i have been really upset to hear the story that emerges, however i think it important that accross the world young people learn so that it may never happen again.
-- caroline

I'm not a jew but my parents have had jewish friends for decades, jews from Germany and Austria which found refuge in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where they live until today with their families. After years reading and thinking about the holocaust, I feel that I am a jew, in the sense that this tragic event affected the whole mankind and threatened man dignity, so every person of any nationality must feel involved. Same applies to any kind of mass murder, mass oppression, dictatorship and persecution based on ideology, on greed, on brutal force and prejudice. I think that every person (including jews) should learn from this great disaster and try to feel solidarity to any threatened community. Choosing peace and understanding is always the most difficult choice, but also the most rewarding.
-- 3/18/01 (?)

Of course the natural thing to say and think is "how can people let this sort of thing happen? Well they did. That is what needs to be remembered. I don't know if anyone of us would have acted any different. I would like to think so. There is just too much indifference for people to care. God didn't let this happen. We did.
-- 3/19/01 (?)

As a father of two children and a serving soldier in Northern
Ireland, it is very moving to learn of the suffering of children. To see the photograph of the child whose passport is shown only reminds me of my son Jack who is only two years old and how he would have coped with the same situation, It makes me cry.
-- patrick vinke-tuke

please remember these tragic events and learn from them. violence never solved anything nor will it ever. love others the way you want to be loved and let something like this NEVER happen again!
-- M.K.B.

this was a horrible tragedy and i hope that nothing like this happens again!
--

i feel so bad that the germans felt this way towards the jewish. i wish that it would have been different but nobody can change history, but if i could, i would have tried to do something to prevent this whole situation. i'm not jewish, but i am african american, and many of my ancestors went through slavery and were treated unfairly, but nothing as severe as what the jewish people went through. i want to wish all of the jewish people, and people who have been discrimanated against, the very best. god bless you all! and i love you all!
-- Nikki Clark

My great-grandfather was arrested on November 14th,three days after the beginning of Kristallnacht. He was taken to Birkenau, where he was kept for six weeks. Thank God that he arrived at the beginning of the Holocaust. Otherwise, my whole family would not exist. I am very, very proud of my heritage; it was a curse and now it is a blessing, as I am realizing everyday. God bless every soul that was hurt by the Holocaust.
-- Sarah Altman

Please teach the children of today to be tolerant of others. Teach them to stand up for what they believe is right or terrible things can happen.
-- Ellen Bernstein

Our grandfather is a survivor of the Holocaust. Our mom has taught us about that terrible time in history. We ask our grandpa about how he felt living in the Lodz ghetto and working in the concentration camp. How did he have the will to survive? He doesn't talk about the Holocaust very much but we know he thinks about it often. We learn about the Holocaust in school and we tell our grandpa about what we learn. We are proud of our grandfather and have learned a lot from him. We will always remember NEVER to FORGET. We will always remember all that have perished in the Holocaust and hope that teaching others will help prevent this terrible thing from happening again.
-- Alec and Austin

I am trying to write a History essay and the use of graphics and photographs together with the text saddens me and brings tears to my eyes.
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I think that this is one of the worst things in our history. I wasn't
around then, but even so I'm ashamed it had to happen.
-- Emily Boeckelmann

NEVER AGAIN! That is something I have learned since before I knew what it ment. I have grandparents who dealt with this war, was in this war, had family in these camps.
-- Elenia Cooper

I think Hitler is just plain sick. I don't understand what gave him the authority to do such a terrible thing. The holocost was hands-down, the worse thing that ever happened Worldwide.
-- Mary-Kate O.

I hope that Hitler will be punished in Hell, eventually. God bless all the people that didn't deserve to die.
-- Sarah

I have heard many stories from my family who were in the war. I am so sorry for all the pain these people had to endure. I will make sure my generation doesn't repeat the same mistake.
-- Emily

how could some one do this
-- jesse

thank you for the wonderful website about this hard time. i am doing a project on it and it was very nice to have such a specially deacated page to something worth while.
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What happened to the people of the Jewish religion is terrible. It should never be repeated and will always be in peoples hearts. Every time I see something or read something that has to do with the mistakes of the Germans towards the Jewish people I want to cry. This is a wonderful site and informed me of things I never know I wouls know!
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On this date, remember the victims by playing Mahler's Resurrection Symphony which was played the next day by the Jewish symphony in the Berlin Square.
-- R. Calitri

Sto studiando l'olocausto e più vado avanti nelle mie ricerce, più mi rendo conto di quanta ingiustizia e quanta sofferenza esiste. Un uomo senza cultura e voglia di conoscere le sue radici, un pittore di tele superficiali e senza alcun valore, come ha potuto scombussolare una società? Se riusciamo a non buttare questi ricordi in un dimenticatoio, e tenerli sempre vivi, tutto questo non tornerà più, perchè nessun uomo può avere diritto di vita o di morte su di un altro. Let's never forget about it.
--Alexandra

may all of the spirits of the victims guide us & inspire us so that that ignorance, prejudice & all of the other factors that led to this are forever vanquished from this planet.
-- lottie@clarityconnect

The results of kristallnacht will always be with us we shall never forget the six millon who died. Me being a jehovah's wittness affets to the victms of the holocaust and kristallnacht rest in peace
-- Nadean

Many people look at what happened and say how could someone turn their back or do these things they say "I would never do that." but If you look at life and see how if you are desperate and need help you will do anything. The German people were desperate.
-- Dbzmm1

It's so hard to believe that so many people stood by and did nothing when so many people were in such terrible conditions. It must have been hard to keep all the other countries from finding out. I can't believe anyone could do that.
-- Amethyst

I wish for everyone to know that what happenend during Krystallnacht was one of the most disturbing things that i have heard about. I encourage everyone to learn about it and to not forget about that horrible night called Krystallnacht!
-- Katie

It was horribe to have s many peie killed. If anybody can tell what happened, it would be a survivor.
-- Guwrencher5000

All of these selections of remembrances are dedicatd to all of the souls lost during the time of the holocaust. May God forever keep their souls, and have mercy on those who helped to commit such a horible crime. I pray that all Jews will not be ashamed, but proud of their heritage and may all the souls that were lost rest in peace.
-- Anonymus

I don't see how all of this could have happened with
nobody doing a thing to stop it. How crazy can one human be to want to kill people for their religion?
-- Diana

That man could do this to man, I cry.
For families ripped apart, for families ended, some before they were even begun, I mourn.
For those we can never meet, I weep.
For pain, hunger, suffering, dying, I rage.
Knowing the seeds are not dead,
I fear.
--

to all who died here I hope that you no longer stuffer in pain and sickness but live on in glory in eturnity
-- stephanie

I find it quite horrible that Germany would do this to just cause
trouble for the Jews. Even though it is "over" with, I'm sure it will always stick out as a disgusting event. I feel for all who was put through the trouble of the German Nazis.
-- Terry

I think it's awful what the Nazis did to those poor Jews. They are just human beings. I can't believe the Nazis didn't realize this before.
--

Let us remember this terrible period in history that it may never happen. Let no one with such a hateful heart ever come to power again. The pure horror that those innocent people suffered, and for what reason? There was no reason. To blame the Jews for all of Germany's problems is simply and outrageoulsly stupid.
-- Robbie and Trevor

 

I feel so sorry for all of the people that perished that night that
the nazis burned and killed. hittler was a creul man and he never should have done that to anyone
--

This was a time of great evil, pause you who read
this and take time to remember those who have passed away so long ago.
--

As i study the beginning's of the holocaust (kristallnacht).I can't believe a person who only cared about ruling all of Europe could do this to the jews who were innocent. The part that i don't get is Hitler was a jew himself. How can hitler and the nazi's torture the jews so painfully, destroying their lives their homes, families. The more i study about the holocaust and hitler i am learning new facts and new information. Nobody will forget the terrible time that the jews went through. How could he do this.JUST REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED AND NEVER FORGET!!!!
-- valentina

I think that this was a horrible experience for many people. Learning
about it was a very powerful and moving experience for me.
--

thank you for your site, I have 7th. graders who are learning for the first time about the Holocaust..very moving and informative
-- jones@dennis.capemayschools.com

This is such a sad advent in time!!!!!
-- Lindsay

It is amazing how many people died because of one man,one order and one country,just think about it...
-- Dan

God rest their souls
-- XENNA@HOTMAIL

And Just Think This Could Have All Been Avoided
-- Teresa

In remeberence to all who died and suffered, may peace rest within you.
--

I just want to take a moment and remember all those who suffered and died due to the Holocaust and may peace be with your souls.
-- Darren Richards

What happened that night, that night of Kristallnacht, was a horrible thing. The whole Holocaust was a horrible thing. Jews were killed, beaten, humiliated, and deprived of their dignity and pride as a race, as people. I just can't put into words how I feel about what happened, but I think the least we can do for those millions of people who suffered, is to remember what happened, understand what a terrible mistake it was, and prevent it from happening again. I will never be able to truly feel and understand the hell those people went through, but my heart goes out to every one of them.
-- S. Wong

I cant believe someone would do something so horrible like that. If I was there i dont know what i would do, but i wouldnt just sit there
-- Kyle

What happened during "Kristallnacht," the horrors, atrocities, the pain and anguish that was inflicted upon the millions of Jews that had suffered because the Further dindn't think that they were superior or equal to the "Aryan" race, (which he so wrongly used to call white, blonde hair, blue-eyed people,) turns my stomach, disgusts me, and really upsets me. Hitler was so idiotic when it came to who was the "dominate race," because there is no dominate race --- thought many choose to believe there is...which in turn leads us to having so many conflicts. So keep these Jews in your thoughts as you walk through each day and remember the hell that the Germans Put Jews through, and what true reason is that Hitler ordered...THE DEATH OF JEWS. Jews are as equal to Catholics as blacks are to whites. WE ALLEQUAL TO ONE ANOTHER NO ONE IS MORE SUPERIOR THAN THE
OTHER!!!
-- Ashley Hardy

DONT EVER FORGET!
-- FRANKLINE AND JOANNA

during all of this,the US was just standing there and acting like this was not a big deal and that it didnt involve us....well it did. Many people say that we didnt do anything wrong but we did...we just stood there and watched it all happen that is what was wrong. This was a big mistake and we NEVER should forget what happened to these innocent people and we should always remember how lucky we are.
-- Nicole

HELLO IM VERY SORRY ABOUT WHAT HAPPEN DURING THE HOLOCAUST.THIS WEBSITE HELPS PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT REALLY GOES ON IN CONCENTRATON CAMPS.THIS WEBSITE IS A GREAT RESOURCE FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST.
-- BONQUISHA

I was 11 years old and I remember it well.My father was in DACHAU we came to America March the 17 and the would not belive the used to laugh at
us.Thank you E.Binder
-- Mundy Binder

I am a white catholic woman, age 37. I am constantly shocked and appalled by the new things I learn about the Holocaust. This is just one more thing that tears my soul up. How people could have done the things the Nazis did to the Jews is beyond my capacity to understand. This is one subject that burns me to my soul. I can not seem to turn away from learning as much as I can about the Holocaust, as much as everthing repulses me. Maybe it is because I could never bear to have something so horrible happen again, in my life or my children's. God help us all
-- Cheryle Tebor

It still makes no sense to me. The things hitler siad the the things he did, but why. All because he didnt have blonde hair blue eyes? He should have taken a look in then mirror! He had brown hair and brown eyes! It is still such a blur to me. If any of you had seen Schindlers list, you have a better perspective. I dont think I'll ever get over the horror and tradgedy in that movie. However it was also very informing and helped me to understand it all alittle better. I feel terrible for all the ones who died. RIP
-- Ashley

I studied the Holocust at school but not until I visited your museum did I truly relize that it was not just 6 million Jews killed. Each Jew had a life, family, a story, a history, and they were killed because they were different. That is inhumane and cruel. "Those who don't study the past are doomed to repeat it."
-- Sussanah

All members of my grandfather's family who were not lucky enough to be sponsored to America, were killed in Auschwitz. I look at their pictures and hurt at the loss. I worry, even in this "modern world" to let anyone know of my jewish heritage. There is still too much hatred out there. Education must prevail so as to not allow this to ever happen again!
-- sandra

remembering all those that perished. "germany must accept the blame, but not all germans must be blamed"
-- carlos

i don't have any personal or family stories about the holocaust. but i do know that what happened was the work of evil people. it was wrong. It was horrific and disgusting. i am only 15, but i have an extensive knowledge of WWII and the Holocaust. i have been researching that period in history for the past six years. it has become a major goal of mine to make certain that these things are never forgotten. that they are never denied. how can you deny what official documentaion proves? how can you deny that fact that 6 million Jewish people and 3 million Non-Jewish lives were destroyed? to do that is to lie to yourself as well as others and to belittle the souls of those who lost their lives, those who lost family, and those who lost eight years of they're lives only to be left with memories of death and hate and destruction. these things must always be remembered.
-- Jennie

May god have mercy on those souls who were lost during this awful time. I pray that the Nazi thugs and collaborators will forever burn in hell and suffer an eternity of suffering.
-- Eric Crossley

I am sorry, and i weep for the lost souls who suffered so at the hands of the Nazis. I pray that this will never again happen, and that mankind can recognize this evil whenever it springs to life.
-- Richard

Im sorry to all the families that lost people during this disgusting period in time.Anyone who could justify this kind of behaviour is not human.Please let us not forget in case it is perpatrated again.The British did not do enough.They hid their heads for years.I am sorry.
-- marie smith

very sad. i feel bad for all jewish people who lost property and lives in this war.
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i think that was bad because it destroyed all the shops and asstred the jewish men and boys. why didn't the countries stop it and stop the holocaust and i feel sorry for the jews at that time.
-- aman nanda

No matter what the world has done to harm the Jewish people, the One above, the Most Powerful, is together with the Jews, forever. And you canbe sure that He will never fail and His judgement will come one day soon. " This is what the Lod says, Who gives the sun as light for the day, who ordained the laws for the moon and stars to provide light for the night, who stirs up the sea until its waves roar - Adonai-Tzva´ot is His Name: `If these laws leave my presence,` says the Lord, `then the offspring of Israel will stop being a nation in my presence forever.`"
-- Carla

let us not fail to learn the lesons and to teach our children love
and empathy instead of hate and intolerance. God help us to do this in our daily lives.
--

The present German government boasts that the Germans have supported Israel with money. This was money takenfrom the Jews during the Nazi period. The present German Government states quite clearly that it is not" rechtmassig" to return any property stolen from a refugee of Nazi oppression, at the present time,October 2000. The German Courts have made this judgment and are therefore also partly guilty of the Holocaust and its consequences. The German people want to write a line under the enormous crimes committed by their nation under the Hitler regime. As long as the Germans refuse "wiedergutzumachen and zu entschadigen", do they remain also guilty, and this should be made clear to them. A former refugee from Nazi oppression
and a poor OAP.
-- Anonymous

 

I believe that those sent to camps that night should have their own memorial for what they went through.
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Shame...
-- Micha Dettbarn

 

What happened to the the Jews was the worst thing that has happened in history. It will most likely be the worst think ever.
-- Alicia Carvalho

I think that it is remarkable that people say nothing did happen. With evidence such as pictures and diaries I just don't understand why some one can just say it didn't happen!
-- Chelsea McKenna

Let's not let this terrible event ever happen again. It was so inhumane, let's hope that future generations learn from this.
-- Justin F.

How could they do such a thing.
-- Matt

I have a hard time beliveing that so many Jews were killed because of one man. Just to look at the number amazes me.
-- Jason Blanchette

We are starting our segment on the Holocaust and it amazes me how many people were killed and arrested because of one man. And how no one thought for themeselves but let Hitler think for them.
-- Lindsay Wan

We Look At The Holocaust And Say "What A Horible Thing That Happened! Good Thing The USA Is Nothing Like That!" But That Is Where We Are Wrong. I Look Around At Where I Live And See That People Are Still Very Horrible To Anyone That Is DIfferant Then Them. Differant Ethnic Backrounds, Differant Sexual Preferances, Diferant Political Views, ANYTHING And You Are Harrased. So Please Look Around You And Try To Point Out To Me That We Are Not Just A Milder Version Of Nazi Germany, Harrasing People For The Fun Of It. Thank You
-- Vortex

I looked at the pictures and saw at least 4 or 5000 jews being arrested by the nazis. How could someone not know about this, why couldn't other countries help?
-- Mustafa A.

The Holocaust was sick and I feel very bad for all the Jewish people and everyone else who got injured of killed.
-- Harrison Ingels

Although I am just starting to study the Holocaust, I don't think that I will ever be able to comprehend the unexplainable evil that occurred during that time.
-- Nick Blixt - Frontier

I think that is just sick how someone could do that to other people
-- Ashley Mansfield

What the Germans did was wrong, and we all know that. The Holocaust was a terrible thing. It is sad that that events went this far, just to teach the world how important and scary power can be when bad people get a hold of it. People wonder what it would be like if the Holocaust had not happened... but we'll never know. We can not change history... but we can change the future. Teach the ones who don't know, Help the views of those who don't believe.
-- Laurel

I don't know if i ever used the word hate and really meant it. But now as I begin to learn about the Holocaust, the word "hate" has never meant so much. The word can be used lightly and not truely meant, but when the word is used against so many innocent people, is has such a different meaning.
-- Erin Parker

May God Bless the Jewish people and let their souls rest peacefully knowing that we remember.
-- Samantha May

Although I don't understand much about this terrible event that took place and most likely never will, there will always be a part of me that WILL REMEMBER this study of the Holocaust. Therefore, I will help it never happen again.
-- Amanda

REMEMBER
-- Dan Gilmore

We've never quite believed the number of people that died. After seeing the pictures, we now realize how horrible it was. We will always remember.
-- Katherine and Sarah

REMEMBER
-- Ashley Johnson

Adolf Hitler was really evil and cruel.Not only what he did to the Jews, but to the other people who weren't "Aryans". He had no right to do that to these people. It's crazy to kill that many people in one weekend.
-- Chris P.

How can all of those people be arrested for the murder of Ernst vom Rath the teenager should have been the only one to get arrested.
-- Philip Clough

I can't believe what happened at the holocaust and it's so unbelievable that a man could be so mean and cruel to so many people.
-- Emily Thurber

The tragedy of Kristallnacht in 1938 was repeated again at the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Chatilla in 1982, but this time by the Israeli Army under the command of Ariel Sharon, who directed his hired "Christian Militias" in the slaughter of over a thousand families: men, women, even babies.
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NEVER AGAIN must apply to ALL, or the Jews of Euorope died in vain.
-- Dan Duncan

As the grandchild of a WWII veteran and liberating soldier, the Holocaust will be forever embedded in my mind. Though I am not a Jew, I have met many who were affected by this atrocious event, and have seen the pain that still lingers in their eyes. As a future teacher, I promise those with whom I have come in contact that I will always strive to teach my students of the realities that they have shared with me. I will help teach the future generations the importance of REMEMBERING.
-- P. Line

Chills ran down my spine as I searched for information on the Kristallnacht and generally the experience of the Holocaust. I am a 15 year old sophomore at Notre Dame High School on Guam. My reason for research was inspired by a Literature Project that was part of a school activity entitled "5 C's". It is a week long activity that enlightens the minds of students on the experiences of World War II not only in the Pacific, but world wide as well.
-- Anonymous

May the 91 who perished on this tragic night rest in peace and those who took part in it realize the horror that they caused.
-- Leah Burke

Son of a son of a son of an emmigrant of Poland from the 1890's. It is doubtful I would be alive if great grandpa had stayed there. Though raised Christian I know that I am Hebrew. Now I keep Sabbath, now I keep Kosher. Why? Because it is right to do. Now, can we avoid the next holocaust? Yahweh willing.
-- Moriyah Tobyahnah

The travesties that occured throughout the holocaust can never be forgotten. The very idea that civilization allowed such events to conspire is devastating to one's mind. I cry for the people that died, I cry for the people who were hurt and i cry for the monsters that had so little humanity in their hearts that they could, with sound mind and body, committ the trecherous acts upon so many people's lives.
-- Amanda

How sad this was. And the houses getting burned down.
-- Jennifer

Some leave us their tracks and memories in a human attempt to live beyond their short lives. Sometimes the means of creating is the end in itself. We have not forgotten you...
-- T & B

This is a sad and terrible thing that happened! This should never be allowed to happen again!
-- Anonymous

To reply to what was said about the U.S. not doing anything. If you remember correctly, the U.S. did do a lot. Ever seen "Saving Private Ryan"? That movie has to do with how much the U.S. did during this time. Also remember we were in a crisis because our Harbor had just been bombed. I know we should have helped earlier, but we did all we could. Now is the time to forgive others for their mistakes, even though it may be hard.
-- Robby

What the German's did was wrong. I have met people that think they had a reason to do what they did. That's wrong too. You don't kill anybody because there different.
-- Robby

I will remember Kristallnacht as a turning point in Hitler's goal to clear away all of the Jews. Objects were thrown at buildings that were owned by Jews, and everyone knew that things would be getting worse.
-- Eve Gleichman

If there was a God he/she wouldn't have allowed such a tragedy as the holocaust to have happened.
-- Nora

I am an American, currently living in Germany. I've been here for over a year and a half, and recently there have been neo-Nazi demonstrations here where I live. This city is extremely international; I attend an international school here, and the experience of the demonstrations in our Altstadt horrified all of us. I don't know any Germans who were not shaken by the event. That same day there was a huge counterdemonstration against the neo-Nazis. The second demonstration's numbers far outweighed those of the first. Here in Germany they, too, are shocked by the events of the past and strive to make sure it never happens again. To anyone and everyone touched by the events of this century's violence, we all grieve alongside you. May God watch over us all.
-- Nicole

No one should EVER FORGET the tragedy of the Jewish people during WWII. If future generations are not told of the horrific things that were done to these people, I dread to fear that something like this could happen once again. God Bless everyone and their families this darkness in time has permenantly affected.
-- Jill

The present German government boasts that the Germans have supported Israel with money. This was money takenfrom the Jews during the Nazi period. The present German Government states quite clearly that it is not" rechtmassig" to return any property stolen from a refugee of Nazi oppression, at the present time,October 2000. The German Courts have made this judgment and are therefore also partly guilty of the Holocaust and its consequences. The German people want to write a line under the enormous crimes committed by their nation under the Hitler regime. As long as the Germans refuse "wiedergutzumachen and zu entschadigen", do they remain also guilty, and this should be made clear to them. A former refugee from Nazi oppression and a poor OAP.
-- Anonymous

I had heard of Kristallnacht, but until I saw & read this I didn't really understand it. It is even more horrible & terrifying because it was done with the public condoning these wrongs against innocent people.
-- Margaret

My name is Patrick. I am 16 years old. I live in Australia. I am a Roman Catholic, but I wish to extend my heartfelt sympathy to all Jewish peoples with pain still in their heart, and express hope that such atrocities will never eventuate ever again...
-- Patrick

We are shocked at how Kristallnacht was so systematically planned and carried out. It is sickening! We had been under the impression that it was random violence and find that it takes on a more horrifying aspect given the planning. We have learned a great deal from this site.
-- St.Thomas High School

To all those who innocently had their lives stripped away I ask forgiveness. To each of us I pray we learn from our brothers and sisters deaths and say "never again..."
-- Vicky Larsen

never again
-- Anonymous

Ho pregato, prego e pregherò affinchè nulla di tutto questo possa mai ripetersi ancora.
-- Andrea Santosuosso

With Anna being a Jew, and I, being a Christian, the Nazi's wanted me to divorce my wife so they could kill her. I refused to divorce her, of course. Luckily, we survived.
-- Alois and Anna Lukas

Evil is a natural state of man. Savagery breaks free of weak restraints- and God does not interfer." Joeseph Conrad HEART OF DARKNESS
-- Barbara Koehler

I myself am not Jewish, nor have I or will I ever be. I must admit I love Germany, but not their past. This is a past that must not ever be forgotten, but learned from. We must not forget, but we must move on. The countless lives lost in this great tragedy are an example of the tyranny and evils related to racism and hatred. We as a species must come together though in this new century and this millenium. Its our future, lets work together to make it a brighter one.
-- Justin McNally

Everybody can learn something for the future from all this awful things. Let us build up a new, peaceful world. I want help from everybody !
-- Kerstin

One cannot blame God for the atroscities that occured. If God created man in his own image, then God must be Evil. God created Man with Free Will. We can only blame Man. God cannot intervene in matters of Man lest we not have Free Will.
-- Anonymous

I wonder how Christians could let themselves get so out of hand. I wonder what they were teaching kids during those days. It certainly was not God! How can you teach someone to hate so much and without restraint! And what is more shocking is that none of these people have even been excommunicated! This is horrible! This is horrible! A nightmare come true. Do people have morals anymore?
-- Maurice

We all must remember the great tragedy that occured during WW II. Everyone especially the people that were alive during that time should be greatful that they are still alive. The Holocaust should be a celebration for those who are survivors of that evil inflicted by Adolf Hitler.
-- Kim Collins

I can only read and view so much before my stomach is tied up in knots and my eyes well up, and then I turn the screen off. I can't even fathom the horrific hell that was called life for my Jewish friends. Meyer, you are indeed a gift from God, from your father who survived the camps. I hope, if ever tested, I have the faith and the courage of you and your forbears not to stand witness but to speal up.
-- Nancy Mazgajewski

To All.
-- Gene Zonis

We've learned that your family and circumstances may influence who you are but you are responsible for who you become!
-- Janine and Pamela

I would like to leave my personal opinion: nobody has the power to be superior of another man or woman
-- Marzia

We must remember: How ever wrong Hitler and his crew were they are forgiven. They were teribly wrong and do not deserve any respect but, they were men and God loves and forgave them. May all the Jewish victims rest in peace, love and respect. And may this tradgity never repeat. Take care and GOD BLESS!
-- Jennifer age 16

May our people survive always... We must all be one or perish...
--Doreen

Take care of us, God. Take care of your people.
--Anonymous

I have recently been asked to assist on a diocesan rememberance service of Kristallnacht in November. Between now and then, I will be praying and working that such a night may never again occur. Having had my parish destroyed by fire (accidently) several years ago, I can only begin to feel some of the pain and horror of that night! Shalom!
-- Pat Pasternak

The darkness in humankind that lives just below the shiny veneer of civility we project to those around us must never be forgotten. The hatred expressed by the Nazis has not gone away but has hidden itself in the wings, waiting for the opportunity to show it's ugly face once again. We must teach our children to remember the horror of man's injustice to man, and we must condition ourselves to stand against the evil power of racism wherever it decides to show itself. The terror of that night must never be forgotten.
--Shawn Bailey

Evil. Absoulte and foul. To describe such attorocities with any current language would be to understate these events in the upmost. Let us remember, and look onwards to the future. To hope. To peace and to love. **Let this never happen again.**
--Daniel Burnett

It seems that many people feel the need to express hatred for those who were part of the Third Reich . Unaware how dangerous the cry of 'I hate you because you hate' is . The Holocaust was a profoundly horrific moment in history , but only by understanding how human beings could be moved to loathe so intensely can we prevent its re-occurance . Men like Primo Levi showed that we must not look back in anger , but with a desire to understand and forgive . Hatred is never an answer it only circles endlessly back on itself . We must always remember.
--J. Morton

I am compelled to do something to keep the memories of these events alive. I am 34 years old, and I live in Louisiana, where I was born. I have only the fact that I am human to call a connection to this thing. I will light a candle Monday night in remembrance of Yom Hashoah. I will teach my children, and all those who will listen, not to ever let the memory of the attrocities visited upon these human souls die. In the simplest form of remembrance, I can only say, We hear you, we are listening to your cries, and will not turn our backs again.
--Myra Howard

I would just like to make a quick remembrance for all the jews and other groups put through this horific catastrophy. I am so sorry, even though sorry isn't enough, i am researching this topic for school and i am so ruined by all the information and history i am hearing about the Holocaust. so if you were put through this madness please if you find the strenght go about teaching and helping the children of america to become more informed of the HOlocaust. thank and my best wishes and concern for all~~~~~~
--Trisha

For all of those who say that the Holocaust never happened are the cruelest of people. To think of how much the survivors suffered, and for someone to say it never happened is completely blind to all the proof that there is. The now deserted concentration camps in Europe, that my father has visited and my granfather lived through is proof. The people that say the Holocaust never happened are prejudice, choose to ignore the proof, and simply cruel.
--Micki

I just did a term paper on the Holocaust. I found tears in my eyes so many times when reading information and my own paper. "the Night of Broken Glass" or Kristallnacht was so sudden...a Jew did kill a German...but he killed ONE man, and the whole Jewish community suffered. They lost, lives, friends, family, jobs, homes...everything.
--Jane

I am german. My Grandmother is german and my Grandfather is Jewish. Before my Grandparents died, they told me all the things they could remember about the Holocaust. My grandmother's family was one of the many who helped hid the jews from the other germans. Fortunatley, they were never caught hiding the jews, but I remember one story she told me about when their house was mistook for a jewish hideou t{ironic} and the house was about to be broken into when my great-grandfather came out of his shed{he had hired some of the men to work for him in return for them hidinhg them} and got them right as they were going to break the door down. My Grandmother even married one of the men her family was hiding. My grandfather was one of the jews who were to be taken to Auschwitz. I know this is a very touchy subject, and I will never forget what I have been told.
--Amber Theilheim

Then pain the jews had to go through is terrible.I have no clue what they have gone through, but it looked tough! I feel for every single family that has lost a person in the holocaust.All of this was wrong and should have never happend!
--Terrah

Anyone and Everyone who was killed,beaten,or deprived. My distant cousin is part Jewish so espesilly for her anscestors who may have or may not have been in that!
--Anonymous

This is one Jew who will not forget. Ever. If "they" even think of trying something like this again they will meet their worst nightmare.
-- ME

I feel really bad knowing that my descendents did what they did to the jewish people.
--J. D.

In remembrance of this tragedy i have done alot of reasearch and I am to give a class reaport for extra credit in my world History English class.
--Charlotte Boyd

The pages helped our brains
--Theresa and Alia

After all of the research that I have done on this subject, I feel so angry. How could anyone have so much hate inside them to do this? How could God allow this to happen? I would like to extend my love and sorrow for all of you who are survivors and relatives of victims of this unimaginable chapter in our history. May God bless you all.
--Jeannine

I have no direct influence from Kristallnacht or any of World War 2 that I know of. I am doing a report on Kristallnacht, and I cannot believe how mentally unstable these people had to be. What they did to people not only during Kritallnacht, but during the entire war is unimaginable. I am brought to tears every time I see a picture or read about what the Jews had to suffer. I will remember the horror of what happened, and pass it on to others so that we will never forget. Because if we forget, then history will repeat itself, and that should not ever happen again.
--Elizabeth

I vow never to forget the travesty of that fateful night
--Ronald Anthony

Diese Ereignisse werden wir nie vergessen. Aber das heutige Deutschland ist anders.
--Anne Wolf

I know all the hell that the jews underwent and it was horrible. I would like everybody to say a little prayer for all that died and suffered. i love you all.
--Stephanie Slayton

I can't find the right words, so I just wanted to say that I remeber too...
--c.u.

I just read a book on this, I was devistated by what the Nazis had done. I just hope it does not happen again....
--JLR

I believe all Jews should travel to Germany to get a real feel of the horrible atrocities that occurred. If a person does not wish to spend any money in that country, a visit to Austrian concentration camps would also be beneficial. Shall we never forget and the November 9ths of German history be forever peaceful.
--Rob Beyer

My Opa Heinrich Grunebaum of Boppard, and my Pop-Pop, Arthur Bauer of Erlangen, were arrested on Reichskristallnacht and held in Dachau. My Opa got out as the result of large bribes and proof of emigration permits to Great Britain in April of 1939. He sent my Oma Elsa out in April of 1939 and left Germany in August of 1939. Pop-pop was beated badly in Dachau, rendering him permanently disabled, and got out after the war had begun, when he had received an affidavit from his cousin in the States. He snuck across the Swiss border in 1940 to relatives in Zurich, who secured passage across Vichy to Lisbon where he left to come to America in 1940.
--David

Bin immer noch sehr beruehrt ueber dieses Erreignisse.
-- Gatot Harijanto

As a member of General Patton's Third Army I,at seventy-six years of age can still see the faces of the Holocaust victims,can still smell the odors in the camps but most of all I will never how a so-called human being could do what was done to the Jewish people and I am NOT a Jew but an American Catholic born of Irish ancestors. Please God never again but we should never let our guard down. Shalom.
--Anonymous

HOW CAN ANYBODY EVER DO THIS? I HAVE NO IDEA WHY ANYBODY GAVE ONE MAN ALL THIS POWER. THE WORST PART IS HOW HE USED IT. DON'T EVER LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN.
--Anonymous

May all their souls rest in peace.
--Anonymous

Grandmother Rosa Freund. Family Schreiber. All residents of Vienna Austria.
--Meir (Martin)Freun

I will never feel the anger you experienced that night. I will never feel the sadness you experienced that night. I will never feel anything that you experienced that night. Hitler forced millions of human beings to hate in such a way that is unique to history. He also forced millions of people to experience a feeling of terror and fear that is unknown to most of us. To those who were his followers of hate, I am living each day of my life making sure that I will never feel the feelings that you felt and educating others to ensure that they will never follow in a path similar to yours. To those who spent the majority of their lives feeling a constant sense of terror and fear as a result of Hitler's tyrannical pursiut, I can never feel the fear that you felt each day, but I promise to remember that it exsited. To all those who feel subject to the Nazi world filled with inhumane rules and living conditions, the world mourns every individual and the potential life that you had to live, but was so wrongly taken from you. Never forget, ever.
--Erin

Remember, lest we forget, it will happen again. That would be the greatest tragedy. Please, never again. To each his own. Why is tolorance of differences so difficult for mankind?
--Roger K.

unbeleiveable and so incomprehensible.
--Natalie Wilson

My father survived Buchenwald
--Al Gruen

for a kind fellow
-- Otto Karlgruenbaum

It's difficult to believe one man could stir up such hatred against a group of innocent people. It is also unbelievable that so many would follow his reign of terror. I hope the memories of all who perished until Hitler's regime will keep it from ever happening again.
--Anonymous

Please never again.
--Anonymous

I want to remember Anne Frank who had faith that she would survive the holocaust. I also want to remember those who gave their lives to help hide Jews.
--Rachel

I think it is a complete tragedy that one man could do something so horrible. It is not right that millions and millions of people were killed because of their religion.
--Lee

I would like to express my sorrow for those who died during the Holocaust. It is so sad that Hitler wanted to create a "master race" when he himself didn't measure up to the standerds. I would also like to state my sorrow for those who don't belive the Holocaust ever happened. We all must remember that time so we can prevent it's happening again.
--Anonymous

May this destruction never happen again; However, it has occurred in the former Yugoslavia. Once again the wicked depths of the human soul has conceived. Evil again destroys. This destruction desecrates the living memories of over 6 million Jewish people and countless others.
--Jacqueline

It's easy for people to say how terrible the Holocaust and hate crimes are, but it's not as easy for them to actually stand up in what they believe in. If you don't follow through your actions, you're just contradicting everything you say that you believe in. Crimes like the Holocaust start off small, and grow to be something bigger than you can imagine. Even a small thing like sticking up for someone can make a difference, and maybe as we all grow smarter and more mature in our actions, the world will begin to change. We can't let history repeat itself.
--Bailey

Not only the tragedy of that night, but the horrors of the years to follow must always be remembered in the souls of all men,and never again become a part of our existance.
--C. Hall

I CAN NOT BELIEVE HITLER DID SUCH ATHING HE IS SO WRONG
--Anonymous

I think it is sick that a person could hate a group of people so much to think that they didn't deserve to live.
--Sandria

Why did 50,000 people have to die because of such a hateful man??
--Cheryl

The world is a vampire...
--Anonymous

Adolf Hitler was a bad man.
--Allison

I feel such great sorrow for all of those people that died. I find it so hard to believe that over 30,000 people payed for a crime that they did not commit. If one person does something it does not mean that everyone would do something like that. I can not even imagine what one day would be like in a concentration camp, and I hope I will never know. I have read many books discussing this subject and I have cried many times hearing what had been written. I pray and know that a terrible crime like this will never happen again, because I can not think of one single normal human being that can sit there and watch people be killed for their religion. We are all supposed to be different, and unique and that is what makes every human being special. If a person could sit there and let that happen, they must be pretty damn sick because the holocaust is the most terrible event that I have ever known. Thankyou for listening
--Racheal Mervine

I can't believe it. It is so sad and I hate to think about it. How could anyone be that mean. How? Everytime I learn something new I have tears in my eyes. It's so cruel.This year I get to go to the Holocaust museum. I know I need to know about this but I really don't want to. I hate to think about the murders that have been commited. Yes murders, not deaths, but murders. It's just not right to kill someone just because of their religion. Religion is not something to have a war over. Everyone needs to be different. I can't stand to think aboutt he Holocaust. It's to depressing and sad.It is an important event to kow about though. You might not want to but you need to. :(
--Cindy

It is unbelivable that anyone could be so Hateful. I do not quite understand the works of Hitlers mind and why so many people revered such a nasty and sick man. I don't think I could ever even imagine the horrible scenarios that ever happen. God blees them and Please god help anyone who could ever even be like that.
--Jaime

To remember all those who died, and love and care for those who lived!
--anonymous

Let this never happen again.
--anonymous

I cannot believe that one murder can result in such a tragedy.
--Jon Jouannet

I think that the way that Hitler and the Nazis treated the Jews, was unfair and unjust. What happened on Kristallnacht was unfair to all the other Jews who had no part in the assassination.
--Michael Schmalz

I feel that the Germans had no right to kill all those Jewish people because of one mans action
--Andy Marciano

This is really a sad event in History. Not only for the Jews that were killed, but also for the ones that survived, and came back to nothing. Hitler and the Nazis were extemely ignorant, and stupid people. To all Jewish people in the Holocaust R.I.P.
--Clif Porter

I would like to remember the people who's homes and shops were ruined and who were arrested and taken away the night of November 9. I feel great sorrow for all of those inocent people but I will always remember.
--Christina Chubb

we are starting a unit on the holocaust and we think that Kristallnacht was a horrible event. The government did not have the right to lay the responsibility of one death on an entire race of people. It sickens us that so many people could have so much hate, that they would try to destroy an entire race of people.
--mark and seth

I think it is so horrible that so many people died just because of their religion. It's not fair.I'm just starting the study of the Holocaust, and it is already horribly bad. I hope everyone remembers what happened here and I hope it will never happen again.
--Kim

I wish to say that I feel extremely saddened that this happened. I also cant believe that some people believe that this never happened. I wish to offer prayer to the great people who died in that terrible massacure.
--tom penza

I have heard many things about what happened throughout the Holocaust, but now comming to this sight has opened my eyes even more than before. All these people and all there lives destroyed within a matter of minuents, is so hard to imagine.
--anonymous

The biggest shame about this was that the U.S. new about this and they did nothing at all to help and the fact that thousands of men were captured for something they did not do. Kristallnacht should have never happened.
--Greg Ciolek

The least we can do is to teach others about the horrids of this dreadful act so they can learn about the wrong in it. If people are brought up not learning about it, they might get an idea that they will exploit like Hitler did. We can only help...
--Jake Robinson

This tragety was caused by none other that the evil found in the human heart. The pain I feel when I see these pictures will always stay with me.
--anonymous

Even though its an awful thing to learn, the Holocost is and important thing for people to learn about. This was we may learn from our own mistakes, and something this awful will never happen again.
--Heather

What had happened to the Jews was cruel. I cn't believe that the goverment was behind it the hole way. Why do people kill if they aren't the same as other people.
--anonymous

Even though we've just started this Holocaust unit I've learned so much within a short amount of time about the cruelty of what really happend during the Holocaust. It's so sad to think about the reasons why and how Jewish people were killed.
--Hilary

It was wrong what the Germans did. It started when of there men was assinated. Then took in ,30,000 Jewish prisenors. That is where the landslide began. In my opinion the German people thought that one of there men equaled lives of many many Jewish people. It wasn' t right.
--Mike K

The Nazis and Hitler were very wrong to do such a thing as they did, and start such a terrible thing as the Holocaust.
--Bryan Bolte + Dale Totman

I think that then holocaust was the worst thing that ever happened.
--Daniel Wellington

I have one question: How did the gaurds of the concentration camps really feel about killing other people like themselves? Why would anyone conduct killing another human being? And also, did they like it?
--anonymous

I visited t his site at school today becasue we are beginning our Holocoust unit. it shocked me to see so many Jewish people arreseted for jusrt one man killing someone. The site is very well put together and I hope to learn many things about the Holocoust.
--Cassandra

The biggest shame about this was that the U.S. knew about this and they did nothing at all to help.
--Greg

Adolf was a bad man
--nick ciolek

I think that then holocaust was the worst thing that ever happened.
--Dan Drumgool

With prayer, sorrow and respect, I remember. (Thank you for this wonderful teaching tool. I have visited the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, but since I cannot take students from MN every semester, your website is crucial.)
--Karla Smart

A constant memory of mans bestially to his fellow man. All for no good purpose.
--P.J. Boyce

I have been to the Holocaust museum and have seen the movie Schindler's List, which I think everyone should see. They both bring the past to life showing the world how the Holocaust was such a horrifying tragedy. The world should become stronger and accept everyone for who they are- no matter one's religion, color, or appearance. God bless everyone who had to live through such tragic moment in time.
--Emily Carroll

I wish to remember my late Oma & Opa, Isidor and Sophie Wilzig from Alexanderplatz, Berlin.
--Sophie Wilzig

I recently visited the Holocost Museum. I was so moved by many atrocities that were inflected on these people by this mad man. May he burn in hell. There were many sad artifacts that were on display in the museum, but I was so touched by the Shoe Display. To know that these were the shoes of real people, just before they were sent to their death. Oh God, please let there never be another mad man like Hitler, then I remembered to this day, they are still going on. No one people is any better than another in the eyes of God.
--L. Permentier

So sad, don't let it happen again
--Cathy

I really hope mankind will never suffer such an oppression, as our brother-jews suffered by the insane nazi organizations. SHALOM!
--Edson Ferreira Nascimento

I feel that no one should of suffered what the jewish people who died in the Holocaust and the people who survied. We are lucky that it hasn't happend again and I have no honor for a man or woman that thinks there is a race to blame for your countries action. I also have no honor for someone to have the heart to kill at least 6 million people. I hope and will always hope and believe that deep down in my heart that Hitler and the soliders who killed with pride in the holocaust deserves worse than to just go to hell. Those people that wer in the concentration camps were very brave. My family was killed in the Holocaust. This note is dedicated to all the jewish people and especially the people who died in and the survivor's of the Holocaust.
--Katrina Recht

Every night darkness falls on the earth, and with this comes the tears and the prayers of the jewish, the christian, the muslim, and of many other religions for those who died in the holocaust. Although i am aethest, my tears also fall for the thousands who died. I also know that these prayers are acknowlegement of the lesson to be learnt by my generation- the evils of steryotyping and hatred and their devestating effect on the world.The tears fall at the shame that the holocaust needed to exist for this lesson to be passed to us, the teenagers of today, so that we may carry it into the next millenium. I hope that all those who died, fought, and survived the war- including the nazis and the jews, and all the allies and others, find peace in their personal heaven, or in their survival...and that they know that they did not suffer in vain.
--Sally

I only hope that this never happen again to any race.
--Milian

I just don't understand :(
--anonymous

I was born in 1952, long after Kristalnacht. As a child, someone in my family gave me an envelope with German stamps for my stamp collection. I always thought it was an ugly envelope and stamps. It did not seem colorful, or joyful as some stamps in my collection, my grandfather's address had hastily typed was neither well lined up or well centered on the envelope and the enveloped was "dirty" with several post marks. Years, later I recognized the dates of the post marks. You could see that the letter was sent just after Kristalnacht, and made its way to Austria where it picked up another post mark. Severals days later it arrived in New York from Austria where it picked up another post mark and finally it arrived in Chicago where it received yet another postmark. You could trace the sad tale of the envelope but could only wonder what the letter within had said for the envelope was empty. My grandparents had not saved many things, but I always wondered why they saved this envelope. I finally asked my mom who said "I remember that letter. It was a sad letter. A relative had sent his money to New York and had written to come to America". I no longer recall what she said about why he never arrived in New York, but I do recall her sadly saying "we never heard from him again". It would be wonderful if the archives had his tale or my mother's words, but this is the least I could do. Shabat shalom. Noam
--Stuart Leviton

Never again
--anonymous

The Holocaust was the darkest period in history. Millions of people were killed, tortured, exploited for the sheer fact that they were considered "non-humans" in the eyes of the Nazi regime. Entering the 21st Century you would think that the world has learned from past mistakes but we obviously have not. As we speak and as we go on with our lives, there are millions of people that are still being tortured, interned, and exploited because of ignorance and intolorence. The world is still repeating the same horrors and injustices that occured just forty years ago. To the survivors my prayers and thoughts are with you. You survived the most unthinkable and unspeakable crimes known to man. You will never forget and because of your stories neither will we. To those that did not survive I say that you did not die in vain. You are our guardian angels and guide us in the path of peace. The world will never know what we have truly lost.
--Jill

We must all remember and never forget the atrocites of the Holocaust and those that are being repeated today.....
--anonymous

They will always have a place in our hearts and mind. But also remember too much mourning could be very egoistic from us since these deads need their peace now. They are Tzadikkim -good and right ones who are in a better place and earned the next world...
--Moishe

May God keep and Bless, all of those whose lives were taken during the Kristallnacht.
--Heather and Katie

I found this site while doing research for my first novel which is set in Nazi Germany. I hope I can do justice to this period of history which must be remembered. This story must be told so that this tragedy will not be repeated.
--Erin

To those who suffered under the rule of the Nazis I wish I could find a way to turn your suffering into something posotive, but I can't. You suffered in vain but are now with God so I know you're happy.
--anonymous

it has disgusted me to see that people of my generation still believe that hate such as this should still be displayed, and that Nazism is not immoral.
--tiffany

never again
--anonymous

May God bless and keep all those who still remember, and may He bring peace to those who would wish to forget.
--Gaidrich

How can people go to bed at night knowing this horror is happening right now in Kosovo?
--Hannah Forman

We have a strong feeling about the Holocaust & believe that it was completely wrong! No one has the right or privlage to do such a terrible thing like they did! Whoever did this should be done the same way!!!
--Heather & Angela

I think Hitler was wrong for mistreating the Jewish people. I'm not Jewish, but I still think it was wrong. I think all Jewish people should be remembered because all Jewish people were under some kind of stress or persecution.
--Fletch

I feel that the Jews were treated unfairly and was a real tragety that this happened. It is the people of today to stop this from happening again.
--Cole

I think the Holocaust was the worse thing in history. The people that committed these crimes were not human. They couldn't be because no human could do what they did and not be a cruel animal. If I was a survivor I wouldn't be ashamed but proud that I survived such cruel and hidious treatment.
--Ben

As a middle school student I believe that this is a good website. I believe that this is a good way to show us we don't need to relive our past. Thank you for publishing this site.
--Michele Colet

I feel that The NON-Nazis were treated very unfairly! I also think that no one should be ashamed of what happened to them if they are Jewish! The Holocaust Museum is a very informative and interesting place!
--Amanda Wylie

Your site is very inspirational to anyone who did not have to face such a battle as the Holocaust. I hope nothing like this ever happens again.
--Ashley & Stacey

I think what happened at the holocaust was a terrible tragedy
--Brett Reed

We're so very happy to have this source to look at to learn the history of the Holocaust
--Daniel Lail and John Brittain

I think that the Holocaust Museum is a great way to find out what happened to the Jews and the others that Hitler killed. It also gives a lot of detail showing what actually happened.
--Jessica Wofford and Becca Jackson

I feel that the way the Jews were persecuted was ufair and inhumane.
--Joshua Lail

This was a tragic thing that happened to innocent people. May God bless those who suffered and died. May the world learn from this terrifying page in the history of humanity. Never Let this happen again. You are not forgotten.
--student at NYU

to all of those who lost their freedom and life you will always be in my heart. my tears for you will never stop for i still don't understand why for only god hold's the key. you will be with him
--ms. j lunsford

the tragedy of tragedies
--Jason Lisnak

Please, to all people of the world, remeber the attrocities that occured. The holocaust was not an accident. We, as a society, and as humans, can not ever let anything like this happen again. However, if we know it or not, we are letting it happen. We musn't fill our world with hatred. Please, just be a person. If you do that, nothing like this will happen again. Please... to save yourself, and others.
--Elizabeth

I shall never forget what i have learned about the holocaust. May the world never see such a horrible time again.
--Amanda

This site really showed me how the Jews were purged!! And it provided ample knowledge for me to start on in my research paper for HOLOCAUST
--Matthew

It is not until one lets the emotional impact of the Holocaust in their hearts that true understanding can be attained. I have, through the course of my education, heard intellectual arguments made about the reasoning behind Hitler and his leadership. It is not until one looks at the pictures, reads the stories, and embraces reality of death, that one can begin to feel the affects of the Holocaust. My prayer is that all remember those who died, and never forget the true tragedy of Hitler's Germany. May Germany always remember, and may the United States never decide to ignore such a situatin again.
--Marianne

: I know that by far the Holocaust was the most terrifying and terrible thing that has happened to any one group of peoples in the 20th Century. And when I say group of peoples I mean human life in general. No one can ever take away what we know and feel about this time period. No one can ever makes us forget the things that happened and the innocent lives that were lost. I am hoping that one day all humans can see how precious life is and that for no reason at all should a life be taken away from someone, no matter what the reason. The most famous quote to me came out of the movie Schindler's List in which it is said that, "He who saves one life, saves the world entire." How true, how true.
--Joel Miller

I miss all
--Mike Gallman

we lost so many who we loved , yet when we lost those who we loved we showed little of the love we professed to have had.
--anonymous

god bless all the victims of this terrible most terrible period of suffering in human history
--maurice hickey

Last week I visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It was the most interesting I've ever expirenced about the holocaust. Just the feeling of standing in the same train as the jews were transported to differents camps gave me the creeps. I hope the holocaust learned everyone something so It wont happen again! *** This is for the victims of the holocaust *** I think I'll never be able to understand the crualty you all lived through.
--Johan Sikström

i wasnt a survivor of the holocaust or anything i have been learning a lot about them in my english class though. i have learned about what they ate (very watery soup that had whatever the SS put in there) i recently read a book called Night by Elie Weisel(survivor). i would just like to say that people say they have problems (not that they don't) but they dont think of the horror of actually waking up in the morning worrying whether they will live or not. Kristallnacht was just the beggining of this horrible thing. i am 14 years of age and from texas. i hope to learn more about the holocaust in the next few weeks and you can count on me to never forget kristallnacht or the holocaust.
--Katie Lane

I vow to always remember what I learn on these pages and from the survivors.
--David Friedman

As a student of religion,I am horrified @ the cruelty exhibited by Hitler and Stalin during the Jewish pogroms of 19th and 20th Centuries. I will continue to pray for all victims of such cruelty and continue to educate my children on such horrors that could happen again. Yes, REMEMBER AND NEVER FORGET.Also remember about Blessed Titus Brandsma and Blessed Edith Stein who were also victims of the Nazi's. They were catholics who died during the holocaust. Please also remember the 20,000,000 Jews who were killed by Hitler's evil predecessor, Stalin.Thank you for this site to allow all to REMEMBER AND NEVER FORGET.
--Kathy

Last night for the first time I watched Steven Speilberg's Shcindler's List. I had heard stories of the Holocaust and even read books, but this movie made me realize what hate can do to a nation. I will always remember the Holocaust even though I have no family members that are Jewish. Because If we forget what hate did then we are just as ignorant as those who commited the act.
--Shanna Young

As long as there is hatred and suffering in this world, it will not end. When people are killed because they are different the Holocaust will continue. We should follow the teachings of Jesus that we love one another.
--Jim& Karen

I am truly sorry and shocked to learn what had happened. It is truly beyond one's imagination the cruelty and hatred that a human being can possess against another human being. I pray to God not to let such tragedy happen again to the human kind.
--Aileen Tan

And yet suffering continues around the world. Pray to God in the manner which pleases you, but do not ask Him to care for the souls of past strife. I assure you He has seen to this task. Rather, ask God to help those who have suffered to forgive us for continuing to allow suffering in this "civilized" world we live in. May God have mercy on OUR souls!
--Mad Dawg

The evil done to these people haunts me. They were as real as the rest of us. These photographs with names once had dreams and fears like the rest of us. Unlike most of us, their worst fears came true.
--Chris Jenkins

I pray that we all may learn to respect each other because of our differences and begin to learn from people that are different. rather than hate them!
--Mary Alice Bruder

Curiosity first drove me to read of the Holocaust. The personal stories of the Camp Survivors inspired me by their courage, strenght and determination to live. After many years of personal study I chose to embrace Judaism; and since my conversion I have continued to find faith, peace and a great joy.
--Phyllis Wolf

I hope that we never forget. I am not a Jew but still wish to remember and ensure that others do not forget.
--Kevin Bellamy

As a junior high teacher, I face today the daunting responsibility of teaching my students of the horrors and travesties of World War Two, the Holocaust and Kristallnacht. I ask that God grant me the strength and the words to do justice to all those who died and survived in a time where the light of human love for the other was hidden by a terrible darkness. I ask forgiveness for the details I will be unable to impart successfully to my students. But pray that the message that shall remain with them be, that they strive to love their fellow man as their brother so that this tragedy will never again be allowed to happen.
--Elsje Maassen

As I am a member of the young german generation I say that this day shall never be forgotten... We`ll always have to remember the 6 million deaths.
--Daniel Koch

I just wanted to say that I was born exactly 40 yrs. after this dreadful occurance and I think that we can't learn enough about it. I feel that there are many lessons to be learned in every story that is told about the Holocaust. Lessons of survival, endurance, and fair treatment. May we never forget the lessons we have learned. And may we always treat all people with respect.
--Martha

Here is my Remembrance as Artist. Not just Kristallnacht and ruins of Berlin Synagogue which I visited in December 1997, but also Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem earlier same year.I memorized the story from my family, ....life against death! Not to lose remembrance! http://www.bartch.com/bartch.htm
--Bartch

I am doing a research paper on the holocaust right now and i'm am really learning for the first time what really happened in the holocaust. I never realized how horrible and inhumane the nazis were to the Jews and the other minorities in Germany.
--Collin

Lest we forget. Please teach our children what happened so this will never happen again.
--Anonymous

I however do not have a rememberance of this fatel and historical matter, but in school we have been learning of this beastial and incompitant matter. We are reading the book NIGHT. This book really has shown our classes the way it was. Even the trouble makers are being effected by this horrible matter. They all listen contentivly, and all seem to hear what the teacher is saying/reading. Jokes and comments seem to be beneath us as our teacher reads aloud. It affects her th most. She takes this matter sieriously, as do we. It was a sad time, and a wonder to us all how can a person(if we even consider tham to be a person), be so cruel and hostile to another human. The jewish faith, thank god, is still here, as the jews, and we are all thankful for that.
--nikki

I am deeply disturbed by other readers who have cited their response to this web site stating - never let it happen again. Do they perhaps not know that it has happened again, and again. One only has to look at Bosnia and Rwanda as examples. Please realize people that this is still happening - there has been no lesson learnt here. Perhaps the human race is incapable of learning such messages....
--Anonymous

I remember
--Anonymous

I find it dreadful, that in this society that any such thing would ever occur. We are ALL one people and should love and care for each other and come to peace. I write this to share my love with everyone in remembrance of all of those that had to be part of this massacre. May God be with you.
--Arlana Pathammavong

Out of the depths, I cry to you, O Lord; O Lord hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, therefore you are feared. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope. My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning. O Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with him is full redemption. He himself will redeem mankind from all their sins. -Psalm 130
--kakalin@bellatlantic.net

My fourth grade teacher was Fannie Bistacki, a displaced person who survived the war in Europe. I pray she found peace at last in the United States.
--Judy Neff

I'm so sorry!
--Alex1999@hotmail.com

This was one of the lowest points in the history of humankind. I have no personal remembrance not being yet born.
--Adolfo Preciado

I'm so sorry!
--Mike.Braga@mailcity.com

I am from the area where all this tragedy happened. I feel very sorry for all the people that suffered. I encourage all of you to learn more about the Holocaust and not let it happen again. May you all victims rest in peace.
--Lubo

Never forget this, no matter how men may declare their ability to denounce hatred--It is possible for it to happen again.
--PasDenB@AOL.com

Remember the horror of nazism
--Goldraij A.

Let our continuing memory of this horrible night be our revenge against those who thought they could annihilate an entire race with their mindless cruelty. For while the names of those evil men have disappeared with the dust of war and the march of the years, we of today and of the future will continue to hold dear the memory of every man, every woman and child who have fallen under the boots of men who would rather be animals towards their fellow men.
--Hopewell@mozcom.com

I lost relatives who came before me during the Holocaust. I have always made a point of trying to educate, in a kind, yet very direct manner, those who know little of the events of 1935-45. What is even more important to let people know is that the Holocaust was only successful because the groundwork for it had been laid over the course of the hundreds and hundreds of years preceeding those horrible events. Sadder still is the fact that the end of World War II didn't end the hatred of Jews; and that hatred has become a model for other ethnic disputes the world over. Has Humanity learned anything when we still hear every day of atrocities committed by people against other people? The battle continues...
--David N. Cohen

For all those who died at the camps and were murdered at places like Babbi-yar. Let us never forget them or what was done. So that it may never be allowed to happen again
--Eunice Evans

In light of recent events in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, etc., I find it so sad that the terms "never again," and "zachor" go unnoticed by the vast majority of humanity.
--Amy

Although Ausschwitz is the culmination of horror I always think of the decade that preceded it: humiliations. Jews forced to gradually internalize the notion that they were rats and as such had to exterminated. And finally they were: so was my father, so was my grandmother, my aunts and their babies. No "statistics" as Eichman said, but "one+one+one+one". I apologize for this muttering. But you offered kindly the opportunity to contribute "a stone in passing", and I seized this opportunity.
--Schnall@cybercable.fr

I can never state better of what has been said of this blight on human events . May God bless the Jewish people and wipe the tears of those who suffered at the hands of evil . I will teach my children vigilence and what happens to us when we destroy others.
--Sarah

Commemorating Kristallnacht reminds us that we must always be on guard to protect the rights of all individuals. Especially, we must guard against complacency that weakens our resolve to work for those who are not protected. Our material plenty and life in a nation committed to assuring us our individual human rights makes it easy to forget those suffering from bigotry. I hope we will never forget that those hungry for power will do anything they can to obtain it. It is our collective responsibility to protect the rights of people today and in future generations. I pray that God will strengthen me to do my part.
--Nikki Stillman

I was born August 5, 1938 in Oklahome, USA. Though not a victim of the Holocaust, a part of my life has always been driven by the need to learn and with great compassion for the victims. Perhaps I have always been driven in such a way because of the timing of my birth. As a believer in reincarnation of the God made human spirit, I now wonder (if there is any truth to reincarnation) if the spirit of me was previously one of the many killed during the holocaust preceeding August 5, 1938...if so, maybe that is why Poland has held an interest for me since childhood. I wonder. And, I continue to pray for the families and descendants of every victim of the Holocaust including Kristallnacht. God Bless.
--Beverly Ann Gross

It is the duty of citizenship in the human race to never forget what happened, and how it happened. Future generations must learn the truth unfiltered. We, the living, owe this to the departed, of Kristallnacht and the Holocaust. Never again, never.
--Perry Harris

To the memory of an angel: Davone Jonath Krueger 8 Cheshvan 5694 - 22 Kislev 5759
--Daniel Krueger

My mother, Martha Driessen, hid a Jewish woman for over 4 years during the Holocaust. Because she and Lilli Wolff were partners, their business was destroyed on the Kristallnacht. Those that tried to stop the Nazi's suffered also. Many Non-Jews suffered because they tried to help. I will never forget the stories my mother and Lilli told of the hiding, escape to America and the suffering they experienced because of a cruel dictator like Adolf Hitler.
--Klaus Driessen

It is truly a sad thing that more people do not understand the gravity of this one event in history. With it began the abolishment of millions of Jews--not animals as Hitler seemed to think, but real people with dreams and hopes...and souls. He who began this horrid destruction of millions will suffer for all eternity for his sin. But we must not say that we are good because we have not attempted to remove a race as Hitler did, for we are also guilty of sins of prejudice and hate. May we seek forgiveness from the Jew Who died 2,000 years ago. His death seemed unjust, yet it justified us. May we never forget the death of this Jew, either.
--Alli S.

May it never be forgotten, so hopefully it will never happen again.
--Anna

After studying Jewish history time and time again I cannot get over the concept of Kristallnacht. At one time these Jews had beautiful synagogues and thriving businesses and then they were just destroyed and taken away. This was the first domino in the many that led to the destruction of European Jewry.
--Alex Abrams

A sad epoch - tragedy in Nazi controlled areas, but tragedy too that world preoccupation with economic sorrows blinded other countries to these misfortunes, dooming so many, so very many.
--Bill Hachmann

Kristallnacht is only an example of what jews suffered and still suffer. Intolerance and brutality
--Anonymous

It was twelve years ago that I first heard about the holocaust and all the horrors it entailed. My sixth grade teacher was a strong, beautiful Jewish woman, the grand daughter of holocaust survivors. As with all aspects of our lives, God knew that I needed to hear what she had to say about the holocaust. She read us a childrens book about the holocaust. It was the beginning of 12 years of intense study and a love for the Jewish people. When Adolf Hitler set into operation the "Final Solution" he was in essence declaring war against the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And although the many years of communism does not pay near the penance for the horror inflicted on the Jewish people, it does give testimony that God does not lack justice for those who harm "the apple of Gods eye". Thank you to all those survivors who have had the courage to tell their stories for the world. And for those of us who have heard we join our voices to yours and cry "NEVER AGAIN!!"
--Kristie Reich

When I first heard about the atrocities which occurred during WWII in Germany, I was about five years old. And all I kept asking myself is why. After so many years of studying and hearing the stories of those who had to live through and past Kristallnacht, I realized that I was not the only one, nor will I be the last, to ask that question numerous times. We have to ask why as much as we seek the answers and understanding that we will probably never have in order to ensure that the hideousness expressed in such hatred as that will never be repeated. When I asked my mother why it all had to happen, she replied, "I don't know. But sometimes I think it is because people are afraid of what they don't understand." Because of that, I have strived to understand others as much as to be understood. I will remember. And my Heart is with those who lived and saw and cried.
--Amanda Parnell

i feel sorry for all those that died in the holocaust....i shall never forget your stories....
--miguel aramayo

My father was 15 when he left Germany with his father to emigrate to America. His mother, Ada, and his sister, Lisa, were left behind. On Kristalnacht Ada and Lisa were visiting friends. They heard an outcry on the streets outside (they lived in Oppeln). My uncle, Lisa's husband, told me that Lisa remembered running through fields to a neighbor's house to escape the pogram. They hide all night. Ada had had tuberculosis, so there was some question as to whether or not she would be allowed (with Lisa) to join my father and his father. I have never discovered how Ada and Lisa made it to America. There are only hints and innuendos--money, favors or one kind or another. One by one my father's family has died of cancer. First Ada, in 1958, the Eric (my grandfather) in 1968, my father in 1982, Lisa in 1986. My sister succumbed to cancer two years ago at the age of 41. Ada's sister, Anneliese, survived Auschwitz as did her son, Andreas. They both are still alive--Tante Anneliese is 94. Andreas is once divorced, now married--to the daughter of SS Captain. His children attend a German school here in the States. There is a strange legacy from the Holocaust and Kristalnacht. I have yet to discern the nature of that legacy. I only know that the Holocaust continues to happen, one way or another, to this day.
--Paul Kassel

this was a terrible night... i hope that it will never happen again. let's listen to the voice of reason for a change...stop racism now!!
--antti vedenpää

"Den stora tragedin är inte de onda människornas brutalitet utan de goda människornas tystnad" Martin Luther King
--Ulrika (from Sweden)

I cannot believe the horrors that went on in Germany. The six million Jews that were put through such absolute torchure and pure hell is horrifying. I feel such and emptiness and hatred for the idiots who listened to and obeyed such a satanic person. To all the Jews who died I remember you everyday and in my heart feel very close to you. I do feel that you watch down upon today, and keep the people in this world, who really are good safe. You were so brave.
--Amanda Ainsworth

Let us Jews, observant and otherwise, bear in mind the souls and suffering of so very many non-Jews caught up in the Holocaust. That we may help to prevent any more Holocausts, let us consider two other connections: the dark and secret sides of human nature and interactions, and the ongoing destruction of many who have weaker worldwide voice that Jews have had. One current example is the "disappeared" victims of sadistic Latin American fascism. How should we answer Hitler's rhetorical question, "Who remembers the Armenians?"
--Mark Gunther

May Kol Nidre be sung by ALL humans for the inhumane treatment of humans by bestial humans in everlasting memory of the victims of the Holocaust as well as all other genocidal activities.
--David Arbiter

I'm sorry.
--Marina

I was a child of the Holocoust, hiding "onderground" in Holland. Now as an adult I pay tribute and respect to all the adult Jews of that era, who went through so much. Never again!!
--Herman Frances

I was given a reading assignment in my High School morality class. It was a survivor's story about his life in a camp during and after the Holocaust. It made me stop and think and put life into perspective. Was I really cold in the winter? Do I know what it truely means to be hungry, cold, weak, scared or lonely? In my mind the answer is a simple NO. I had my first child and I feel sometimes so lucky that I get to see my baby grow. How aweful it would be to stand there and watch a man break up your family or kill your neighbor or close friends or your children and you can do nothing and these thoughts of all the sufferings that occured make me break down into tears. There are a few people who can not bear witness to the Holocaust...please encourage them to account for their sufferings and losses we must never forget. Please be a kind person to all living things. All that breathe have souls.
--Sam

I lost 90% of my family in 1942 and because of this I have always felt it my responsibility to educate and learn about the Holocaust. I am currently in the final year of my degree course writing my paper on the effect of the Holocaust on the psychology of the Jewish community. It is only with the help of academics, museums such as this and survivors who are able to tell this story that I can fulfill the promise to my family - I will never forget.
--Abi Wharton

In addition to the destruction of our many synagogues on 11-09/10-1938, there was an assassination attempt on my father and brother (Berthold Guthmann and Paul Guthmann) carried out the following year. While the murderers did not succeed then, they deported my family (and me) a few years later. All but I are dead. We shall never forget and will never forgive. I want to thank the USHMM and its dedicated staff for their work on behalf of my martyred friends and family.
--Lotte Guthmann

My father was a Canadian MP during WWII he spoke very little about the ugly side war but the memories he recounted to me the struck him the deepest were his first sight of "the Camps" The images of so many and so much suffering burned indelible in his mind. My father no longer walks the trails of this world but his greatest deepfelt wish was that NO ONE on this earth ever fall victim to such terrifing horror. It is us who must prove this wish true. and do all in our power to stop any such afront to humanity from surgeing forth again!!!!
--Kevin

I'm deeply touched by every story I hear about Holocaust. I always have. I always will be. What a tragedy for all of humanity. The millions who died will never be forgotten. God bless every one of them.
--Priyam Sharma

This past weekend I finshed up "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" about one young girl's survial of Terezian. During this show I was able to learn more about the Holocasut that i never learned in Hiigh School, but the thing that I want to remember is a quote that was in our program that said " We must remember because we can not afford to forget". So I hope that if your are reading this that in your future that you will not forget and that you will please teach your children abotu this also. Peace Be With You
--Brandon

I have read and studied the holocaust for years and it still shocks me to think that this horrible, cruelty to human life was even thought of let alone carried out. I feel for the people who lived through this horror, but also for the men, women and children who died through this horror. Maybe that was a saving grace that they did. History has a way of repeating itself and I hope that this part of history does not resurface, but if it does I hope we are wiser in spotting it and ending before we have another holocaust. For all the people who survived this tragedy may god bless them wherever they are, and for all those people who perished in this tragedy may you all rest in piece. And for every race, creed or color I hope we can all live in peace.
--Melissa

Through all the hard times peole must remember to stay strong, and believe that life will get better. If it is to late to make a difference for yourself, then you must remember that ultimately you are fighting for human kind.
--Squirt

Just recently I visited the museum. I was one of those people who's tears seemed to dry up and not let you express your true emotions. Ever since I've heard of the Holocaust I became very interested it as should others. This thing didn't just happen over night and no seemed to see it coming but the few who moved to other countries. Then when this started happening no one reached out to help their friends or neighbors who were being put to their imedate death or were put to hard labor with little food making them die slowly and painfully. I think everyone should do something to remember the many, many people that died such horrible, painful deaths. That's why I am learning as much as I possibly can about this subject, we owe them at least that. We owe them at least the guarantee that we will learn as much as we all can about this and prevent it from ever happening again. I have so many images burned into my mind now I know I'll never forget anything. There is the picture of the woman who's identifacation card I got when I went to the museum is one of the darkest clearest pictures in my mind along with the last words of the last sentence in that identifcation card "immediately gassed." Then there is the clearest picture of all, the shoes. It was there at those shoes that I broke down and cried. I couldn't take it anymore. So all I have left to say is a message to everyone, learn, understand, and remember.
--Heather

We just started learning about the HOLOCAUST. We are sickened by how the way that the Jewish people of Germany are being teated. We would never even think someone could do this, and we could never do it to someone because of the different race. I am sure that the HOLOCAUST will be a memorable unit that we were taught. We will never forget this horrible tradegy. We wish we could have done something if we were alive back then. When we think about the HOLOCAUST, the first thing that comes to mind is sick,crazy, but also sorry. So many lives have been taken because they were different.
--Kayla And Marcy

I cannot see how such hatred became a part in their daily life. Men loved their family's, wives, yet they were killing thousands of Jews in the ovens not even thinking twice. How can a human life take another without feeling guilty, feeling pity or even caring at all.
--Ben Dohrmann

I'm an eighth grader from the Frontier Middle School. It is so awful what the Nazis did to the Jews. I can't belive that so many people suffered without many people knowing. I am so glad that the Jews stayed strong. I hope this never happens agian.
--Ali D.

It's terrible to see all the things that Nazis and other people under Hitler's rule did to innocent people. I can't imagine ever experiencing something that awful. Hopefully history will never repeat itself, because something that devestating should never be done again to any race of people.
--Lilly

Although we just started the Holocaust unit, we feel like we gotten a very good idea of all the terrible destruction and devastation that the Jews at to go through. What they have been through is so horrible, that we can't imagine. No matter how long and thoroughly we study this. I'm glad we are still taught this, even 50 years from now, because it helps us learn how cruel people are to each other. It's so Amazing how people treat each other.
--Johanna and Adam

I can't belive that on Kristallnacht the owners of stores got their windows broken by their own customers.
--Nate Smith

I think that the Holocaust was a terrible tragedy for all Jews. There was absolutely nothing that they could do. I think that Hitler and the rest of the Nazis were sick people. How could someone be so cruel that they try and get rid of a whole human race. Thank god there are no more people like that right now and I hope that there are never will be again. But one thing that will always be true is that there will always be racism and cruelty in the world no matter what and we can't do a whole lot about it. But, we can try our hardest to give everyone chances no matter if they are black or white or what religion they are. All I have to say about Hitler is that he was a sick man and I think that he didn't even have a good enough reason to do that to so many people
--Ryan Bailey

All I have to say is Hitler was a crazy and sick man who needed help. It is so depressing to think of what he did to the world. And to think that there are people out there that worship him. That is just sick. It is so sad that so many people had to die because of one man. That just makes me... mad.
--Amelia Beth Reniszewski

I am in the 8th grade at Frontier Regional High School and I think this is a great web site consirning the persicution of Jewish people. It is really sad that they were treated this way just because of their desent. Some things like these are just terrible and should never happen again.
--Christopher Moulton

Our eigth grade class is starting a holocaust unit. I find this so interesting because I just don't see how the germans could get away with it. It would be interesting to speak with someone who was on the German side and how that they planned everything. Later on this year I will be visiting the Holocaust museum.
--Joey Patterson

I am learning about the holocaust in english class and we are looking at this site because it is very important to the holocaust and I am upset that this are past and that it may happen again in the future if we dont get along. I am glad that you put this site on the internet bacause if you didnt make this web site i wouldnt have know about Kristallnacht
--Anonymous

My eighth grade is going to take a trip to WASHINGTON in February. We have just begun a unit on the Holocaust and we are all shocked and disgusted by the treatment of the Jewish people. No one believes that people could be so narrow minded and cruel as the Nazis. After seeing the pictures and documents, it is all so real.
--Ashley

We both thought that it was awful by the way all of those Jewish people were killed just because of their religion. We also think that it is good to know what happened during the Holocaust. People shouldn't be treated that way just because of their religion.
--Amy Kuck and Moria Mikolajczuk

Never in my life will I be able to comprehend why anyone would hate someone so strongly because of what they believe. Imagine watching your family be dragged away from you, your teachers expelling you, and just be stared at as if you were a 'thing', because you are Jewish. I think it is good that everyone is learning about what they went through.
-- Susie Gokey, Frontier Regional school, Conway,Massachusetts. 8th grade.

I can't believe this all happened and the U.S. didn't do anything for so long.
--Jeff

Even reading this over and over again , makes me realize just how very lucky I am. I can't possibly imagine how it must have felt to be Jewish during this timeperiod. Just the fact that you were Jewish did not make it any different. I can't even explain how many emotions I have about this Holocaust history.This has to be one of the most horrid and unfair things I have ever heard in my life.
--Jenny

I can never feel what the people felt on that "Night of Broken Glass" but my heart goes out to them.
--Anonymous

War is stupid! Why someone would kill another person because they didn't like them is insaine,why would they do this? This war that Hitler started was useless. Killing thousands of people just because there not the same as you is like booing someone at a baseball game because there not good.
--Cameron Turchetti

I can't believe that people are so prejudice and cruel. This is just awful. I can't imagine this happening to me.This is going to be a very depressing unit but I think I am going to learn a lot. People always seem to be afraid of what's different.They can't just accept who and what people are. If people aren't like you then you aren't going to be accepted. I think that that is just dumb and I think that Hitler and some of the Germans were so mean.
--Anonymous

I just started learning about the Holocaust, and I can see how horrible it was. Kristallnacht or the the night of the broken glass was very sad to me seeing all the buisnesses and houses that were ruined. I caned believe that the Jewish people would let the Nazis walk all over them. I fell sorry for all the Jewish people that were hurt and injuired for the horrible things that the Nazis did to them. I hope all the Jewish people honor all the people and all the sufured.
--Ben

I think it was horrible what the nazis did to the jews they did nothing personal to deserve this horrible treatment. Just because one single person does something that was wrong doesn't mean a thing about other people that are in the same religion as him. I don't think Hitler was right but others shouldnt have follow his lead to make the perfect person. Minds should think for themselves each person has their own so they should think like their own. I also don't imagine being a Jew durring this time period.
--Sarah S. Hay

In my 8th grade english class we are starting a Holocaust Unit. This was the first thing I've really read about this and it came as a surprise to me to think about why people could actually do this.
--Lesley

It was a very sad event. I hope nothing like that ever happens again.
--Julian Olavegoya

I think that this is horrible about what happend and hopefully people will learn more a bout the Holocaust.
--Ryan Pierce Johnston

I am just starting the Holocaust unit in school and I can't believe what the Nazi's did to the Jews. I can't believe Kristallnacht started because of the murder of one person.
--Jeff

My class is just starting to study the Holucost. I'm in the eighth grade at Frontier Regional School in Deerfield, MA. I think its awful what Hitler and other Nazis did to the Jewish people. I can't even imagine doing something that mean and cruel to one person let alone millions of people. I hope nothing like the Holocaust happens again.
--Martha Compton

We are just starting to learn about the Holocaust in our English class in school. From what I have just learned, I think that it is very sad and horrible. I can't believe some of the things that people would do to each other. I feel that if I were there when this happened I would stand up and make a difference no matter what any one else thought. I am sorry that I wasn't there to help.
--Jen Basil

We have just started learning about this and we can't believe what happened,we feel that this is a very tragic event for many people as well as people who learn about what happened . We hope that nothing like this will happen in the future or any time soon .We also hope that most teenagers will get a chance to learn about this event that occured Nov. 9, 1938 . This is an important part of history which is why we want people to learn about it.
--Crystal and Laura

I am just beggining to study the Holocaust and I am sickened by the violent hate crimes inflicted on Jewish people during the 1930s and 1940s. It is horrifying to think that this could happen in the 1900s.
--Tyler John Caron

Hi my name is Jeff Bellino we are starting to study the Holocaust. I think it is extremely sick for people to kill Jewish people like it is nothing. That was stupid.
--Jeffrey William Bellino

I'm a 8 grader in frontier middle school and we are starting to study the holocaust i think this is really bad and im happy that this is all over with and i hope that it will never return in our school you have to learn about all this stuff that went on back then.
--Kelli Fortin

We are starting to learn about the Holocaust in our English class. What we have learned so far is sad. I can't believe what happened on the night of broken glass.
--Kim

I have just started to study the Holocaust. It is really intense. In my opinion this is the worlds greates disaster that I know. What amazes me is the meir fact that something like this could happen, and did. I don't think that something of this level will ever happen again though. I am very interested in this and hope to learn more though it is so sad.
--Justin Cleare

I am just starting to study the holocaust. I am amazed at how bad that the Jewish people were treated.
--Mitch

I am an eighth grader at Frontier Regional High School, and I feel that what happened to these Jewish people a long time ago was very very terrible. Not one person should have to live through that kind of torture. What happened was wrong, and I believe that this never should have happened. No one should have to be judged by their religion, race, or background. That is just wrong.
-- Erika Skorupski

It's amazing to me that that humans are capable of doing something like this to other people. This tradgedy should never be forgotten. Being informed about this day is good. Now maybe if we know how bad this was, we won't let it happen again. Just think what would happen if it happened again? Do we really want to kill a race or religion for the sole perpous that they are different???
-- Natalie

Hi my name is Matt Duca and I am from deerfield in our class we are just starting to study what happpened during Kristallnacht "The night of the broken glass" We have just have just started and am so amazed at how Hitler could do such a thing to any body. Please I know that it was horrible i think that who ever gets this message you are a very brave person
--Matt Duca

I am astonished at the cruelty of man kind and how one can so quickly push these people out of there life when they did nothing wrong.
--Jamie

Most of my family was lucky and left Europe. Some may not have been. I'm not old enough to have seen for myself, but I still remember. Shalom.
--Jennifer (aka "Mara")

I want to remember all of the Jew's that perished in this awful event.
--Anthony Demare

I commit myself to remembering, and not even 'comfortably', but to continuing to challenge myself to remember the truth. Peace to the children of Israel.
--Jacqueline Quackenbush

I was not born, my grandfathers and grandmothers didn't want to tell me about it, so I read and found that written words are not enough and I have not even found right words to ask.
--Kerstin

I was born 11/9/38 at exactly the time given for the beginning of these outrageous events by the Nazi-German's. As I am homosexual and my partner of 28 years is jewish, we have a strong affinity for all those who suffered. Unfortunately, the world has not really changed that much since these events. It is so sad.
--Marc Leger

To all of the families who lost a loved one during the Holocaust: One day you will meet with them again and you will be together with them for the rest of eternity.
--Melissa

As every year, I would like to express my sadness about the tragedy of the Holocaust. I'm a grandchild of an Holocaust's survivor, and that's why I think that every person who survived from this war, must tell the story because otherwise in 10 or 20 years, no one is going to remember it. REMEMBER..DO NOT FORGET.
--Tatiana Ismajovich Szumsztajn