Marking Night of the Broken Glass ; Survivor Watched Nazis Destroy Father's Store

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FORT LEE -- Edith Kantrowitz was 12 years old when the Nazi storm troopers came to her father's Berlin clothing store, exactly 70 years ago Sunday.

"In the evening, all of a sudden we heard crashing and screaming," the 82-year-old said Sunday of her family, which lived above the store. "We looked down and saw them -- they were destroying my father's business. My father wanted to go downstairs, but my mother said no. She was afraid they would kill him."

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Marking Night of the Broken Glass ; Survivor Watched Nazis Destroy Father's Store

Kristallnacht -- literally, "Crystal Night," but known in English as the Night of Broken Glass -- was a systematic pogrom against Jews in Germany that took place overnight ...

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