 Now, over the course of that night, Jewish businesses were ransacked, giving rise, in fact, to this term Kristallnacht, literally Kristallnacht for the sheer amount of glass that littered Germany's streets. Hundreds of synagogues were destroyed, these centers of Jewish communal life. Jews were brutalized and murdered on the street. Others were sent off to concentration camps. But when I think of this night and why I think of it as a hinge moment, I think of actually the recollections of one young,