BERLIN, Nov 9 — For George Shefi, a 94-year-old survivor of Nazi Germany’s “Kristallnacht”, bearing witness to the pogroms targeting Jews is his final “mission” — all the more urgent in the face of a renewed wave of anti-Semitism.
“Our generation is the last generation that can tell the true story,” Shefi told AFP ahead of Monday’s 88th anniversary of the events also remembered as the “Night of Broken Glass”.
The wave of violence unleashed by the Nazi regime on November 9-10, 1938 saw at least 90 Jewish people killed and 1,400 synagogues set alight across Germany.
Shefi, born Spiegelglas in 1931, was just six years old when the anti-Semitic riots shook his home city of Berlin.
