January 27 is a global day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust. Germany has been observing it since 1996. In Israel, commemorations began much earlier, and on a different day.
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On Nov. 9, 1938, the Nazis, among them many ordinary Germans, killed at least 91 people and vandalized 7,500 Jewish businesses during Kristallnacht the “Night of Broken Glass.”