Kristallnacht Research Paper

The Holocaust, a majority of people know what it is, but a slim number know how this genocide began. When the sun rose over Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia the morning of November 10, 1938, it was filled with smoke of hazy fires. Synagogues and Jewish businesses were burning, across multiple countries. The aftermath of this catastrophic event included many lives lost, a way of life, and buildings burned to ash. Historians call this massive coordinated attack on the Jews by the German reich- the Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass. I chose to research Kristallnacht because it was a huge turning point leading into the Holocaust, and many people look over this event in history. Through my research I hope to find what developed before Kristallnacht, and I also desire to find a personal interview of someone who lived through the fearfulness of the Holocaust and especially Kristallnacht.
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I consulted many online sources. I used the student database Ebsco, and found an interview. I also found helpful information from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website. This was a reliable source because it is a living memorial of the people who passed away in the Holocaust and the stories that formed the history of this mass genocide. From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website, I used many different articles from the main page of Kristallnacht. I found another interview on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website, since I wanted more persecution of Jews living through the horror of Kristallnacht and the Holocaust. My final source was from The Jewish Virtual Library, a trusted Jewish website. Combining all three source I had plenty of information to complete a quality research paper over