Goethe-Institut's panel postponed as non-profit expresses regret over timing, but not the event itself; Foreign Ministry calls the plan 'an utter disgrace'

'Light from the Synagogue' organizers expect hundreds of synagogues and churches outside Israel to commemorate 'Night of Broken Glass' this year

Protestant minister in Görlitz turns over segments of Torah that had been in safekeeping since the anti-Jewish pogrom in 1938

Founder urged schools to continue program even after Kristallnacht; exchanges appeared to have some success in persuading American partners to give Nazi regime benefit of the doubt

83 years after the teenager murdered a German diplomat in Paris, ostensibly giving the Nazis a pretext to spark the pogroms, historians are still divided over his legacy

At inauguration ceremony in Vienna for Holocaust monument, chancellor says: 'We looked away for too long, until we realized our role as perpetrators'

Protest, publicized by the Austrian Union of Jewish Students, sees street signs named for Nazis and SS members pasted over with a temporary homage to resistance leaders

Compiled by a Harvard sociologist but not published until 2012, essays in the collection 'Night of Broken Glass' take readers beyond ravaged storefronts and burning synagogues

18 municipalities in Germany and Austria display pictures of the buildings at their former locations to mark antisemitic pogrom's 83rd anniversary

German state education minister says she is ‘ashamed’ of contemporary antisemitism in her country