A collection of rare images were recently presented to the public, showing the Nazi documentation of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party.
Up until now, the Gold family from the United States was in possession of the images, but never talked about it. The father of the family served in Europe during World War II in the counter-intelligence division of the U.S. Army,
A synagogue that was destroyed by Nazi members on Kristallnacht (Photo: Courtesy of Yad Vashem)
After he passed away, his daughter, Anne Leifer, and her two daughters discovered the album full of photographs from the Kristallnacht pogroms of November 1938.
"When I opened the album from 84 years ago, I felt like a hole had been scorched in my hands," Elisheva Avital, Gold's granddaughter, said.
The Gold family decided to donate the album to the Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center and its project the Gathering the Fragments.
