Book Companion Post: Remembering Kristallnacht in Liberec

Today marks the 79th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, when most of the synagogues in the German Reich were destroyed along with Jewish shops and businesses. Until I researched my Jewish family history while writing Jumping Over Shadows, I didn’t know that the destruction of the synagogue in my grandparents’ hometown of Reichenberg (now Liberec) was directly connected to my Jewish great-uncle Guido:

“Guido never found out that the synagogue his father had helped build...