European synagogues kept their lights as part of a campaign that commemorates the 82th anniversary of the November pogroms
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Titled “Light Up the Synagogue” and “Let There Be Light,” the initiative came from the World Zionist Organization’s Center for Religious Affairs in the Diaspora, which in a statement urged community leaders to “leave the lights on to commemorate the ones that were extinguished on that fateful night, and the light they emit will shine to a distance.”
Svjetska cionistička organizacija, njen Centar za religijska pitanja u dijaspori, je pozvao lidere židovskih zajednica da ostave svijetla u sinagogama u noći , koja će sjati daleko, kako bi komemorirali pogrom u 1938.godini. Akcija se zvala "Upalite svijetla u sinagogama" i Neka bude svijetlo"
Na 9. studenog 1938. nacisti u Njemačkoj i Austriji su organizirali pogrom u kome je poginulo desetke Židove a tisuće ranjeno , kao odmazdu za atentat na njemačkog diplomata od strane jednog židovskog studenta. Mnogi istraživači smatraju da je to bila prekretnica u povijesti Holokausta jer je to bio prvi veći fizički napad na Židove.
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“The reason Kristallnacht led to the Holocaust was the lack of serious action by world leaders” during the event and afterward, Chief Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich of Ukraine wrote on Facebook. His Great Choral Synagogue in Kyiv had its beautiful neo-Moorish façade lit up and glass-stained windows glowing.
“The light that streams out lights up even the darkest evenings,” Aron Verstandig, chairman of the Official Council of Swedish Jewish Communities, the country’s EJC affiliate, wrote on Facebook.