Official bronze medal, in limited quantities, Kristallnacht (pogrom night) - 2004.

Official bronze medal, in limited quantities, Kristallnacht (pogrom night) - 2004.

On the night of November 9-10, 1938, the 16th of Mar Cheshvan 1939, the Nazis took to the streets of Germany and Austria, attacked Jews, broke into synagogues and Jewish homes, murdered, destroyed, and looted Torah scrolls. This notorious night was called "Kristallnacht" by the Nazis, without the many glass fragments in the streets after the destruction they themselves sowed. That night 1,300 Jews were murdered, thousands injured, arrested and sent to concentration camps, and 1,574 synagogues were burned or destroyed. German policemen and fire forces present were silent and did not intervene. The world stood by and did not respond. The "Night of the Pogrom" commemorates the memory of the murdered and the victims, the loss of German Jewry and through it, the Holocaust of the Jews of Europe as a whole.

Obverse: On the face of the medal, the "Adass Yisroel" synagogue in Nuremberg, the city where the Nazis were sentenced, which was burned down on Kristallnacht, does not damage the Star of David.

Reverse: On the reverse side, the real number of victims and synagogues destroyed, much larger than the numbers in the literature. Below, burnt fieldstones with burnt words engraved on the bottom of the words on the sanctification of the name: "Shema Yisrael" above, the inscription (according to the Babylonian Talmud): synagogues in the Diaspora will be determined in Jerusalem. 

Design: Meir Eshel (with the advice of Zvi Steiner and Rabbi Yitzchak Steiner).

Carving: Tidhar Dagan.

Mint: Hecht Products, Tel Aviv.

Diameter: 59 mm.

Weight: 98 grams.

Condition; Very Good.