On November 9-10, 1938, the Nazis staged vicious pogroms—state-sanctioned, anti-Jewish riots—against the Jewish community of Germany. These came to be known as the November 1938 pogroms or Kristallnacht (now commonly translated as "Night of Broken Glass"). The pogroms marked an intensification of Nazi anti-Jewish policy that would culminate in the Holocaust—the systematic, state-sponsored murder of Jews.

In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, nine Holocaust survivors recalled their experiences during the November 1938 pogroms in these interviews with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.