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Advocates of the Doomed: the refugee crisis of the 1930s in light of American and international refugee policy

33rd Annual Yom HaShoah / Holocaust Remembrance Day exhibit

Kristallnacht

“Kristallnacht” - The Night of Shattered Glass

“In just a few hours, 1400 synagogues were desecrated and set alight. Torah scrolls were torched, Jewish homes, businesses, and shops were vandalized and looted.

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President Roosevelt's Response to Kristallnacht.

He was the only world leader who publicly said something about this event, yet this brief statement does not even mention Jews despite the fact that only Jews and Jewish institutions and businesses were targetted. 

Link to the Jewish Virtual Library for more on this document