The Conversation U.S. on Nostr: Johanna Neumann was 8 when she witnessed the 1938 Kristallnacht attack on Hamburg’s ...

Johanna Neumann was 8 when she witnessed the 1938 Kristallnacht attack on Hamburg’s Bornplatz Synagogue. The windows shattered and Torahs lay burning in the street.

Now, plans to rebuild the synagogue are dividing Germans: is it a symbol of Jewish revival or painful erasure of #history?
https://theconversation.com/kristallnachts-legacy-still-haunts-hamburg-even-as-the-city-rebuilds-a-former-synagogue-burned-in-the-nazi-pogrom-241069
#histodons #holocaust #jewstodon #krystallnacht