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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 290 

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken 

Glass. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

NOVEMBER 12, 2013 

Mr. CARDIN (for himself, Mr. WICKER, Mr. MENENDEZ, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mrs. 

MURRAY, Mr. SCHATZ, Mr. MARKEY, Mrs. HAGAN, and Mr. SCHUMER) 

submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or 

the Night of Broken Glass. 

Whereas November 9, 2013, through November 10, 2013, 

marks the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the Night 

of Broken Glass; 

Whereas Kristallnacht began as a pogrom authorized by Nazi 

party officials and carried out by members of the 

Sturmabteilungen (SA), Schutzstaffel (SS), and Hitler 

Youth, marking the Nazi party’s first large-scale anti-Semitic operation and a crucial turning point in Nazi antiSemitic policy; 

Whereas, during Kristallnacht, synagogues, homes, and businesses in Jewish communities were attacked, resulting in 

murders and arrests of Jewish people in Germany and in 

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Austrian and Czechoslovakian territories controlled by 

the Nazis; 

Whereas the events of Kristallnacht resulted in the burning 

and destruction of 267 synagogues, the looting of thousands of businesses and homes, the desecration of Jewish 

cemeteries, the murder of 91 Jews, and the arrest and 

deportation of 30,000 Jewish men to concentration 

camps; 

Whereas the shards of broken glass from the windows of synagogues, Jewish homes, and Jewish-owned businesses 

ransacked during the violence that littered the streets 

gave the pogrom its name: Kristallnacht, commonly 

translated as the ‘‘Night of Broken Glass’’; 

Whereas Kristallnacht proved to be a crucial turning point in 

the Holocaust, marking a shift from a policy of removing 

Jews from Germany and German-occupied lands to murdering millions of people, and was a tragic precursor to 

the Second World War; 

Whereas, despite numerous global efforts to eradicate hate, 

manifestations of anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance continue to harm our societies on a global scale; 

and 

Whereas Kristallnacht teaches us how hate can proliferate 

and erode our societies and serves as a reminder that we 

must advance global efforts to ensure such barbarism and 

mass murder never occur again: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

(1) recognizes the 75th 2 anniversary of 

3 Kristallnacht; 

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1 (2) pays tribute to the over 6,000,000 Jewish 

2 people killed during the Holocaust and the families 

3 affected by the tragedy; 

4 (3) continues to support United States efforts 

5 to address the horrible legacy of the Holocaust and 

6 combat manifestations of anti-Semitism domestically 

7 and globally; 

8 (4) will continue to raise awareness and act to 

9 eradicate the continuing scourge of anti-Semitism at 

10 home and abroad, including through work with 

11 international partners such as the Organization for 

12 Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Personal Rep13 resentative on Combating Anti-Semitism and Toler14 ance and Non-Discrimination Unit; and 

15 (5) requests that the Secretary of the Senate 

16 prepare an enrolled version of this resolution for 

17 presentation to the United States Holocaust Memo18 rial Museum in Washington, D.C. 

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