Thoughts and Reflections on the Occasion of the 85th Anniversary of the Kristallnacht by a Holocaust Survivor
S. F R A N K L I N S P I R A | On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched terror attacks in Israel resembling historic pogroms, coinciding with the Sabbath and Simchat Torah. These events evoke painful memories of the systematic persecution culminating in Kristallnacht, which spurred the author’s family’s emigration from Austria to America. In this article, S. Franklin Spira recounts those harrowing days and the details of his family’s escape from Austria.
