Alex Dafner, Yiddish report, 11.11.2018, 80 years to Kristallnacht pogrom

On this 100th Anniversary of Remembrance Day, the Australian Jewish community joined the general community, to remember and honour the Australian Jewish and other servicemen and women, who served and died in the first and second World Wars, and proudly recalled the names of General Sir John Monash and the many other Jewish ANZACs. The Jewish community in Australia marked and commemorated the 80th Anniversary of the terrible Nazi, anti-Jewish Krystalnacht pogrom, in Germany and Austria of the 9th and 10th November 1938 and remembered the noble and solitary recorded act, by the Aboriginal leader William Cooper, who tried to deliver a letter and petition protesting the attacks and racist Nurenberg laws, to the German consulate in Melbourne. Jews of different religious practices came together in Sydney’s Great Synagogue to remember the victims of the Tree-of-Life shooting in Pittsburgh, where they heard speakers, joined in prayers and acknowledged the messages of condolence and solidarity from, among others, the Australian National Imams Council, the Sisters of May Order, Seventh Day Adventist Church and the Governor of NSW David Hurley and the Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Source: SBS