Jewish Federation Memorializes Kristallnacht

The Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh is hosting a Kristallnacht program this Saturday night, November 8 at 7:30 p.m. at Community Day School in Squirrel Hill.

Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” which falls on November 9, was the first organized government-sanctioned act of violence against the Jews in Germany, and many consider it the start of what would culminate with the Holocaust.

The program will feature Holocaust Scholar Dr. Rachel Korazim Holocaust Scholar and local jazz musician Patrick Crossley.

Crossley will play a bass that was found in the concentration camps. The instrument was originally played by Leo Rosner, a Polish Jew who was saved by Oskar Schindler; he and his brother Bill were on Schindler’s famous list. When Leo died, the instrument came into Bill’s hands. It was left by bequest in Bill’s will to Patrick Crossley.

Community Day School students will lead tours of it nationally acclaimed Gary & Nancy Tuckfelt Keeping Tabs—A Holocaust Sculpture on the school’s campus.