A newly discovered photo album recently donated to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Museum, features rare photos of the events of the November Pogrom of 1938, termed “Kristallnacht” by the Nazis.
The museum released the photos to the public on Wednesday.
The album contains photographs of vandalized Jewish homes, images of Jews in dressing gowns or pajamas, some wounded, and others still in bed—classic propaganda photos taken by the Nazis—and pictures of SS men gathering piles of books, presumably collected in order to burn later.
The photos, taken by Nazi photographers, depict scenes from one location, but are representative of the attack on the Jewish community across much of Germany and Austria during the two-day pogrom.
Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan said, “Seeing these images of humiliation of Jews, and the destruction of their homes, businesses and even synagogues is extremely disturbing and difficult.” JNS
