On today's 84th anniversary of the night of 9-10 November 1938, recorded in history as "Kristallnacht", we reflect on our debt and responsibility to the new generation. Because it is our generation's duty and responsibility to pass on knowledge and preserve memory to future generations.
Η "Crystal Night" it was the beginning of the systematic actions of the extermination of the Jews, the springboard for the implementation of the "Final Solution" planned by the Hitler regime for the total extermination of the Jews. It was the Night that marked humanity's darkest page, the holocaust, with the destruction, desecration and burning of hundreds of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Germany and Austria. They broke shop windows, looted and burned books...
Today we remember that dark Night, reflect on where intolerance and anti-Semitism can lead humanity, and worry when in the Europe of 2022 the serpent's egg hatches again.
Tonight we turn on the lights of civilization, solidarity and respect for human rights, and every day we oppose knowledge and memory against darkness and oblivion.
Athens, November 9, 2022
CENTRAL BOARD OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN GREECE