75th anniversary

It is 3 days to the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht (crystal night) - the night in 1938 when the biggest pogrom in pre-war Nazi Germany happened.

Synagogues were burnt, homes and small businesses invaded and ruined, people beaten and robbed, 91 Jews lost their lives (usually beaten to death). And it was all state-organized, legal (Nurnberg statutes were already introduced effectively putting Jews outside any protection of law whatsoever).

It was very black night in Europe being followed by much blacker years.

Today in Europe Antisemitism is very present. Synagogues and Jewish schools and meeting houses are under protection, guarded often 24 hours a day. There have been cases of setting fire to them in Sweden, UK, France and many other European countries. Jewish schools welcome pupils with safety gear comparable to the one on airports - at least in most places (and as the case of shooting rabbi and children in Jewish school in France shows - for a very good reason). There is movie on youtube showing Jewish school in UK under heavy protection of CCTV cameras, security personnel and with bullet-proof windows. All with the comment from English policeman that it is indeed very necessary as assaults on it are common.

It looks like after Holocaust, after 6 years of the most terrible war, after wiping off 6.000.000 of its Jewish citizens (98% of the prewar population in Europe) Europe has learned nothing.
What a shame that at the same time when most European children usually walk to the nearest school without giving it the second thought and visiting churches for religious or touristic purposes is normal-day activity Jewish community in Europe lives n fear and is - AGAIN - under attack.
At the same time when bulbs, vacuum cleaners and alike are discussed by EU bodies as sooo important issue Jewish citizens of Europe feel in few places as they did shortly before the Kristallnacht.

It is real SHAME for all Europeans, myself included and I feel it deeply - all I may do is write about it, and talk about it. It is not enough, it is very little....