This was my family’s synagogue in Fulda, Germany, destroyed 75 years ago tonight. pic.twitter.com/5CmA7BsN4X

— Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) November 9, 2013

This is the site of my family’s synagogue in Fulda, Germany, destroyed 75 years ago tonight. It is now a parking lot. pic.twitter.com/BTEyH8aLch

— Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) November 9, 2013

As we observe the 75th anniversary of the so-called Kristallnacht (known more appropriately as “Reichspogromnacht” in Germany today), let it not be forgotten that Berlin’s Neue Synagogue was saved from total destruction by a German police officer pulling his gun on the mob that had assembled there, thus allowing the fire brigade to prevent a small blaze from spreading. You can read the story on Wikipedia here.