Lecture To Mark The 75th Anniversary Of Kristallnacht

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Deborah LipstadtOctober 05, 2013|Rae Asselin, UConn Center for Judaic Studies, Statewide The Center for Judaic Studies & Contemporary Jewish Life and the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Connecticut will be sponsoring a major lecture, free and open to the public (seating is limited and tickets are required), on Monday, Nov. 11, at 7:30 p.m., in the Library Building Auditorium of UConn’s West Hartford Campus, 1800 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford. The lecture will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Kristallnacht programs. This government-sponsored violence throughout Germany and Austria on the night of Nov. 9-10, 1938 provided shocking evidence to the international community of the brutally anti-semitic agenda of the Nazi party and marked the beginning of the catastrophic end for Jewish communities throughout Europe.