"But the Story Didn’t End that Way…"

The Yad Vashem International School for Holocaust Studies, in conjuction with the Division for Social and Youth Education and the Curriculum Center of the Ministry of Education, has produced a study kit on Kristallnacht entitled: “But the Story Didn’t End that Way…”. This unit was originally produced to commemorate the 60^th anniversary of Kristallnacht pogrom. click here to download

Kristallnacht was a series of riots that took place throughout the German Reich (Germany and Austria) on the 9^th and 10^th of November 1938, and represented an important turning point in the history of the Jews of Germany. Over 1,000 synagogues were destroyed during the pogrom throughout Germany and Austria. A great deal of damage was done to Jewish property, and for the first time, tens of thousands of Jews were sent to concentration camps simply because they were Jews.

The International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem considers the production of an educational kit to promote familiarity with the fate of German Jewry in the 1930’s, to be of great importance. The unit is meant to provide teachers and students with up to date and readily available didactic tools, adapted for educational needs.

Target audience:

Middle school and high school students in formal and informal educational frameworks.