Wednesday, 4 November 2026
11:30 a.m. EST
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In remembrance of the victims of the November 1938 Pogrom, Historians Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller and Dr. Rachel Perry will explore what photographs and art from the period reveal, despite the Nazi regime’s efforts to present the attacks as spontaneous expressions of anger from the public and to obscure the impact on the victims. The November Pogrom took place on 9 and 10 November 1938, when the Nazi regime orchestrated a campaign of antisemitic violence against Jewish communities across Germany, annexed Austria and the Sudetenland (ceded by Czechoslovakia to Germany). Often referred to as “Kristallnacht”, a euphemistic term that minimizes the scale and brutality of the attacks, the November Pogrom marked a turning point in the radicalization of Nazi antisemitism. The panel will ask what photography and art reveal about the realities of those depicted, the social interactions surrounding the violence, and the broader society in which it unfolded.
Ms. Melissa Fleming, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications; His Excellency Mr. Florian Laudi, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations; and Ms. Rachel Stern, Executive Director, The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art will deliver opening remarks.
The panel discussion is organized by the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme together with the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art and 1014 / space for ideas, with the support of the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations.