09 November 1938
Reichsprogromnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
The term “November Pogroms 1938” refers primarily to the night of November 9-10, 1938, originally called Kristallnacht or Reichs-Kristallnacht. Decades later, the term “Reichspogromnacht” (Night of Broken Glass) became the predominant term. These pogroms were acts of violence against Jews in the German Reich, organized and directed by the Nazi regime.
Between November 7 and 13, several hundred Jews were murdered throughout the Reich. Estimates place the total number of Jewish victims of the pogroms at between 1,000 and 2,000. Around 1,400 synagogues, prayer rooms, and other meeting places of Jewish people, as well as thousands of businesses, homes, and Jewish cemeteries, were stormed and destroyed. Beginning on November 10, deportations of Jewish people to concentration camps took place. At least 30,000 people were interned, and hundreds died as a result of the murderous conditions of their imprisonment or were executed.
The pogroms mark the transition from the discrimination against German Jews beginning in 1933 to their systematic expulsion and oppression. The extent to which they represent a precursor to the Holocaust, which began three years later and involved the annihilation of all Jewish life, is a matter of debate among historians. (Wikipedia)
The d/i/light Memorial – Shoah Film Collection
The Holocaust Remembrance Weeks – 09-30 November 2025
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
6 screening programs
1 – The d/i/light Memorial – Shoah Film Collection
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
1h 06 minutes
Tova Beck-Friedman (USA) – Pregnant with the Dead, 2020, 3:36Irena Paskali (Macedonia) – Memories of Little Jerusalem in Sefrou IP, 2020, 3:08
Dova Cahan III (Israel) – My Visit at Ferramonti of Tarsia, 2016, 12:10
Peter Freund (USA) – Camp, 2011, 7:15
Deborah Sfez (Israel) – A Journey to the Land of Memory, 2017, 5:30
Istvan Horkay I (Hungary) – Tenebrae, 2012, 6:00
Mária Júdová (Czech Republik) – Metaphors of the body, 2013, 6:04
Isabel Perez del Pulgar (Spain) – Sacrifice, 2017, 11:50
Alessandro Fonte (Italy) – Unisono, 2013, 2:37
2- The d/i/light Memorial – Shoah Film Collection
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Alicia Felberbaum (UK) – Undressing Room, 2009, 4:30
Dova Cahan II (Israel) – My aunt Mina and her son Shmuel never came back from Auschwitz”. 2015, 9.18
Myriam Thyes (Switzerland) – Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s Vanishing Lines, 2015, 10:10
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – [my homeland] – [meine heimat], 2012, 1:33
Paolo Ottonello (Italy) – Little chronicle from the Bell Tower, 2015, 03:25
Maria Korporal (NL) Anne Frank, 2014 , 6:20
Valerio Murat and Antonio Poce (Italy) – They made a desert and was called peace, 2014, 8’45”
Mariusz Wirski I (Poland) – Passerby, 2012, 1:14
Brigitte Neufeldt II (Germany) – Güterbahnhof/Freight Depot Halle/Saale, 2005/2016 , 06:26
Steven Ausherman (USA) – A Forest, 2012, 2:19
Doron Polak & Uri Dushy (IL) – RED (1-3), 2008, 30:00
3 – The d/i/light Memorial – Shoah Film Collection
1h 06 minutes
Shelley Jordon (USA) – Anita’s Journey, 2011, 8:28Marcantonio Lunardi (Italy) – No, 2013, 2:29
Jacob J. Podber (USA) – Vishneva, Belarus Soviet Union Poland, 2013, 2:35
Isabelle Rozenbaum (France) – Two Trees, 2009, 11:47
Felice Hapetzeder (SWE) – Origin On Re-cut Trailer, 2009, 7:02
Christiano Berti (Italy) – Lety, 2009, 19:40
Doris Neidl (Austria) – If this is a Man, 2009, 5:09
Anetta Kapon (USA) – My German Vocabulary, 2007, 2:09
Lilia Kopac (Lithuania) – The Pit of Life and Torment, 2013, 60:00
5- The d/i/light Memorial – Shoah Film Collection
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
1h 24 min
Daveed Shwartz (IL) – I saw a Mountain, 2009, 5:00
Daniel Wechsler (Israel) – Remains, 2014, 02:18
Andrea Nevi (Italy) – Everything collapses and disintegrates around me, 2011, 2:40
Christophe Bisson (France) – Sarah (K), 2014, 14:00
Yonatan Weinstein (IL) – My Grandma – Frau Masha, 2006, 57:00
Istvan Horkay II (Hungary) – “Raoul Wallenberg”, 2014, 62:00
Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg (4 August 1912 – disappeared 17 January 1945) was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian. He saved thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian fascists during the later stages of World War II. While serving as Sweden’s special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944, Wallenberg issued protective passports and sheltered Jews in buildings which he declared as Swedish territory.
The d/i/light Memorial – Introduction
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne @ Riga Forum – International Holocaust Conference Riga 2019
Shoah Film Collection @ The d/i/light Memorial
