Survivors Describe Kristallnacht

This video opened the international conference “New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison.” In it, survivors describe their memories of Kristallnacht in excerpts from testimonies housed in the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive.

Learn more about the VHA here: https://vha.usc.edu/home

The conference was co-organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, and presented in cooperation with the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C. and the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin, Germany.