Kristallnacht remembrance

The Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 3700 Henry Hudson Parkway, is holding a remembrance of Kristallnacht on Sunday, Nov. 8, at 7 p.m. at the synagogue.

Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, occurred in 1938 when thousands Germans, many of them members of the Nazi Party, turned on their Jewish neighbors, breaking shop windows, destroying synagogues and murdering 99 Jews.

The service at HIR will include a tribute to Stephen Tyrone Johns, who was killed by an anti-Semitic gunman while working as a guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington.

Mr. Johns’ widow, Zakiah, is expected to attend the commemoration.

Irving Greenberg will be the speaker.

This is part of the November 5, 2009 online edition of The Riverdale Press.

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