2020 was the third-highest year for antisemitic incidents against American Jews since the Anti-Defamation League started tracking the data in 1979.
Ruth Zimbler was just 10 years old when she watched the Nazis burn down her synagogue in Austria. As the flames blazed, her great aunt asked the firefighters on the scene why they were just standing there. “We have orders to let the synagogue burn,” they said., did not stop there. Her apartment was stripped bare of everything but the furniture and a pair of candlesticks that her family used on Shabbat.
Zimbler watched the destruction of the largest synagogue in Vienna from her apartment at just 10 years old on November 10, 1938 during Kristallnacht. Pictured is the synagogue before and after the fire.In the aftermath of Kristallnact, the Nazi regime ordered police to arrest 30,000 Jewish men. They were sent to concentration camps and many of these men did not make it out alive.
Ruth and her brother, Walter, escaped on a Kindertransport out of Vienna. She's pictured to the right of the nurse in the photograph.Kristallnacht is commemorated each year on November 9-10 with 2021 marking the 83rd anniversary. To this day, Zimbler says she still feels the glass from the windows crunching under her feet.“I think the only way to overcome is by education. I think that you have to tell the story and you’ll have to make people understand it,” she said.
“What we're seeing is that people aren't even able to identify antisemitism anymore,” says Oren Segal, the vice president of the Center on Extremism at the ADL. “That's when you know it has become so normalized, so much part of our public discussion and online discourse. And that's when it's really dangerous.”
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