State Medal - Crystal Night
Features
| Location |
Israel
 |
|---|---|
| Issuing entity | Israel Government Coins and medals Corp. |
| Period |
State of Israel (1948-date)
|
| Type | Commemorative medals |
| Year | 2004 |
| Composition | Gold (.585) |
| Weight | 17 g |
| Diameter | 30.5 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Number | N# 557140 |
| References | ICMC# 31628310 Israel Coins and Medals Corporation (https://israelmint.com) |
Commemorative issue
Crystal Night
Series: Memorials & Commemorative
Obverse
On the face of the medal the “Adas Israel” synagogue in Nuremburg, the city in which the Nazi leaders were later tried, which was burned to the ground on Crystal Night. The flames rising from the synagogue do not harm the Star of David on its roof – symbol of the eternal survival of the Jewish people.
Scripts: Hebrew, Latin
Lettering:
ADAS ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE NURNBERG
בית כנסת עדת ישראל
Designers: Meir Eshel, Zvi Steiner, Yitzhak Steiner
Reverse
On the obverse appears the true numbers of those murdered and of synagogues destroyed, much greater than the numbers which appear in the literature. At the bottom appear the words uttered by the martyrs, “Shema Yisrael” and at the top a Talmudic phrase, “In the future Synagogues of the Diaspora will arise anew in Jerusalem".
Scripts: Hebrew, Latin
Lettering:
עתירין בתי כנסיות שבגולה שיקבעו בירושלים
ליל הפוגרום CRYSTAL NIGHT
ט"ז חשון תרצ"ט 1938 NOV 9
1574 בתי כנסיות נהרסו
1300 VICTIMS יהודים נרצחו
POGROMNACHT
1574 ZERSTORTE SYNAGOGEN
1300 MARTYRER
שמע ישראל
Designers: Meir Eshel, Zvi Steiner, Yitzhak Steiner
Comments
On the night between the 9th and 10th of November 1938 the Nazis took to the streets of Germany and Austria, attacked Jews, broke into synagogues and private houses, murdered, destoyed, and burnt Torah scrolls. The Nazis called the night Crystalnacht – Crystal Night – because of the millions of pieces of glass which remained after the destruction the Nazis themselves wrought. On that one night, 1,300 Jews were killed, thousands injured, arrested and deported to concentration camps, and 1,574 synagogues were burnt or destroyed. German police and firefighters who witnessed the destruction were silent and did not intervene. The world observed from outside and did nothing. The Crystal Night medal honors the memory of the murdered and the injured and symbolizes the loss of German Jewry and the overall destruction of European Jewry in the Holocaust.
We acknowlege the role of Ashkenaz House and its Director Professor Meier Schwarz who initiated the issue of this medal and assisted with timely and useful advice.
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| Date | Mintage | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| ND (2004) | 150 | ||||||||||||||
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Actual gold weight: 0.320 oz
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