“In Dresden, Sylvia Morris witnessed the ransacking of the Jewish department store - Etam's [on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938]. 'Dresden had been peaceful and not pro-Nazi so this was a major event,' she recalled. 'We girls in the Töchterhaus made our terrified landlady go to the store to buy things. We opened all the windows and sang Mendelssohn songs as loudly as we could.” ResistanceNazismAnti SemitismDresdenNazisAdolf HitlerThird ReichMendelssohnKristallnacht Book:Travellers in the Third Reich Source: Travellers in the Third Reich
“The light of kindness and goodness in our heart is ultimately what we must tap into. We do not so much "fight the darkness (of hate and bigotry)" as we illuminate it when we unite our own inner light with the inner light shining in our fellow brothers and sisters” Social JusticeHolocaustJewishChildrens BooksViennaYiddishHanukkahKristallnachtTheodore Bikel Author:Aimee Ginsburg Bikel
“The beast in man had lifted its mask and the time of euphemistic niceties and rationalizations was over.” HolocaustNazi GermanyKristallnachtNight Of The Broken GlassSophie SchollThe White Rose Book:Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Source: Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
“You heard his storm-troopers shout their "Juda verrecke!" You heard him denounce us Jews, threaten us, revile us.' 'Yes, I did. But will you believe me, Herr Klaar, that I and thousands like me, didn't take all that seriously? After what I saw today I know that I was wrong. But believe me, I thought all that anti-Jewish propaganda was just rabble-rousing, something for that drunken SA mob. I ignored it and thought it unimportant. I felt certain all that would be forgotten once Hitler came to power, that ...' 'And the Nuremberg laws?' Father interrupted her. She thought a little while before replying. 'Yes,' she said, 'you're right to ask me that question. What shall I say? Of course, I know about them., but I also know now that I pushed that knowledge away from me. It won't be as bad as it sounds, I thought, and that injustice, I persuaded myself, had to be put on the scales and weighed against Hitler's achievements. Nearly six million unemployed were found jobs. Germany was strong and respected again, the same of Versailles was wiped out. Yes, I looked for the good things and was intentionally blind to the bad. I am sorry, Stella, I wanted so much to believe.” WwiiKristallnacht Book:Last Waltz in Vienna Source: Last Waltz in Vienna