Pictured above: The deportation of Jews to Dachau concentration camp from Regensburg, Germany on Nov. 10, 1938. On Kristallnacht, the synagogue and community center were burned to the ground, Jewish apartments were destroyed, and Jewish men, women, and children were arrested and humiliated. About 30 were sent to the Dachau concentration camp. (CourtesyYad Vashem Photo Archives ) There will be a Kristallnacht remembrance service at the Milton and Betty Katz Jewish Community Center of Margate on Monday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m., the infamous "night of broken glass," when 70 years ago 1,408 synagogues and places of worship were simultaneously destroyed, and 30,000 Jews were arrested.

Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner, has described Kristallnacht as ". . . the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end."

The service will be presented by the South Jersey Board of Rabbis coordinated through a planning committee co-chaired by Anne Bullen and Joel Chipkin. Sponsored by: Richard Stockton College Holocaust Resource Center, Milton & Betty Katz JCC, Jewish Family Service, Jewish Federation of Atlantic and Cape May Counties, South Jersey Board of Rabbis and Cantors.

For further information contact Stockton's Holocaust Resource Center at 652-4699.

Kristallnact owes its name to the shards of shattered glass that lined German streets in the wake of the pogrom-broken glass from the windows of synagogues, homes, and Jewishowned businesses plundered and destroyed during the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms that took place on Nov. 9 and 10, 1938, throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of Czechoslovakia that had been occupied by German troops.

These riots have been considered by many historians as having marked a major transition in Nazi policy, and were, in-many ways, a harbinger of the "Final Solution."