October 29, 2008 Chicago Tribune by Melissa Eddy, AP.
Klandorg, Germany. Yaron Svoray has been combing through an old garbage dump looking for remnants of the Jewish people in Germany before World War II. He scrapes layers of dirt from a shard of glass and finds a sunflower at the heart of a Star of David. He speculates that it might have been used for Passover celebrations in pre-war German Jewish homes.
He is in a former dump about an hour north of Berlin that locals say was used by Nazis to deposit rejected loot from the November 9th and 10th 1938 pogom known as Kristallnacht, or "Night pf Broken Glass" where 99 Jews were killed, between 25,000 and 30,000 arrested and put in concentration camps and 267 synagogues destroyed. Many believe this event the beginning of Hitler's Final Solution.
Many other items have been found here, including a beer bottle with a Star of David on it and a metal Swastika.
Digging Up History. --DaCoot
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