85th Anniversary of Kristallnacht

Join the Montreal Holocaust Museum on November 9th at 7pm in commemorating the legacy of Kristallnacht, the pogrom organized by the Nazis on November 9 and 10, 1938. In the years that followed this violent pogrom, millions of Jews became the targets of further persecution and genocide.

Three of these individuals were Nathan, Salomea, and Janek Cytryn. On the 85^th anniversary of Kristallnacht, we invite you to learn about how their lives were forever changed in its aftermath.

Their story will be told through Salomea’s own words, as her letters sent from the Warsaw ghetto to her husband in a POW camp were recently donated to the Montreal Holocaust Museum and translated by the Polish Institute of Science and Arts in Canada thanks to assistance from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

The ceremony will include musical pieces, commemorative prayers, an address from Professor Ula Madej-Krupitski, and readings of Salomea’s letters by performers from The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre.