A collaboration of colleges and departments at Washington State University will commemorate “Kristallnacht,” Crystal Night, on campus the week of Nov. 3-7.
Named for the shattered plate glass from windows in Jewish storefronts and homes, Crystal Night was Nov. 10, 1938, when synagogues and Jewish institutions across Germany were raided and burned. More than 7,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed, nearly 100 Jews were killed and thousands more were injured or tortured.
The WSU Honors College, Department of English, Department of Foreign Languages, General Education Program, Department of History, Department of Music and College of Liberal Arts invite you to attend these events:
• Film, “Die weisse Rose” (The White Rose) about resistance against the Nazis in WWII, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3, CUE 203, Rachel Halverson, Department of Foreign Languages.
• “An Evening of German Music,” 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, Bryan Hall Theatre, Lorie West, Department of Music.
• Lecture, “The Shattering of a Community: Crystal Night 1938,” 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, CUE 203, Ray Sun, Department of History.
• Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, CUE 203, by James Waller, Edward P. Lindeman Chair and professor of psychology at Whitworth College, on his recent book, “Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing” (Oxford 2002).
• Film, “Das schreckliche Maedchen” (The Nasty Girl) about post-war German trauma in dealing with the Nazi past, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, CUE 203, Rachel Halverson, Department of Foreign Languages.
