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Article: For Chicago's Jews, fears of horror abroad
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 5, 1991
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Chicago Jews knew something terrible was coming. But it would be
years until they knew how terrible it would be.
By the late 1930s, they had heard the incredible stories.
Restrictive laws against Jews in Germany, property seized, children
segregated at schools and later expelled.
For many American Jews, a flickering newsreel in late 1938
focused their fear. Scenes from Kristallnacht, the night of broken
glass, showed Nazis rampaging through Jewish shops and synagogues in
Germany, smashing windows and pulling Jews to the street by their
beards.
By the time Pearl Harbor was bombed, some Jews were torn.