69th anniversary of Kristallnacht

I have to at least mention that tonight is the 69th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 'Night of the Broken Glass.' On this night in 1938, German 'youths' burnt over 100 Jewish synagogues to the ground in what many historians regard as the beginning of the Holocaust. My first Gemara teacher, Rabbi Isaiah Wohlgemuth Shlita (may he live long and good days), was the Rabbi of one the synagogues that