Around the world, tomorrow (Tuesday) a series of ceremonies will mark the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht.
On the night of November 9-10, 1938, a huge pogrom took place in Germany and Austria, in which many synagogues were destroyed and destroyed, and at least 400 Jews were murdered, along with many others who were sent to concentration camps and perished.
One of the initiatives that has already become a tradition is the illumination of thousands of synagogues in Israel and around the world in a special international project, an initiative of the religious kibbutz and other organizations.
As part of this project, traditionalists keep lights on in synagogues, as a memorial to a layered light in synagogues by the Nazis and their burning.
"On the night of Cheshvan 1936, on the night of November 9-10, 1938, the Nazis carried out a pogrom against Jews throughout Germany and Austria. Jewish-owned synagogues and businesses were burned, their window panes smashed, hundreds of Jews murdered and thousands arrested and sent to concentration camps." Written in the prospectus of the religious kibbutz movement. "This year is the 14th year in which the initiative led by the religious kibbutz and adopted by the Chief Rabbinate, Tzohar and other organizations takes place. "In Australia, on Tuesday we all turn on the light in the synagogue for the whole night, against the lights that lay that night."
Prior to the project, the World Organization of Synagogues in Israel and around the world also called for the prayer houses to be lit.
"We must remember those days and fight together the anti-Semitism that we see again and again around the globe," said the organization's chairman David Ben Na'a.
