Word: kristallnacht
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After finding out about Kristallnacht--the night of Nov. 9-10, 1938, in which members of the Nazi regime committed acts of violence against Jewish persons and property--Riesman said that he and other students petitioned Harvard to invite German Jewish students and professors to America. Harvard's dean responded reluctantly, saying he would "make haste slowly," Riesman said...
...controversial issues. The Islamic Society held an Awareness Week, and Hillel sponsored events throughout the year that discussed religious tolerance. A December panel, for example, discussed the difference between religious tolerance and religious pluralism. Hillel also helped students remember the Holocaust's 50th anniversary with a panel discussion of Kristallnacht and screening of a movie on Auschwitz...
...German word Kristallnacht refers to the glass broken during the night's destruction...
James Carroll, director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide at the Kennedy School of Government, illustrated this denial by quoting headlines printed in The New York Times in the days immediately following Kristallnacht...
...Most people who attended already knew what Kristallnacht was, but it brought a deeper awareness and helped put it into the context of what's happening in the world today," said Justin P. Finnegan...