Kristallnacht (16 Marḥeshvan) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

This is an archive of prayers composed for, or relevant to, Kristallnacht (16 Marḥeshvan, or 15 Marḥeshvan on years like 5782 where the sixteenth falls on a Thursday).

If you have composed a prayer or prayer-poem for Kristallnacht , please share it here.

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For prayers composed for Yom haShoah in the State of Israel (27 Nisan), please visit here.

For prayers composed for the United States commemoration: Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, please visit here.

For public readings selected for Holocaust & Genocide Memorial Days, go here.

אֶפְתַּח פִּי לְךָ אָדוֹן | Eftaḥ Pi L’kha Adōn, a seliḥah for Kristallnacht by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Contributor(s):	Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Categories:	Kristallnacht (16 Marḥeshvan), Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust
Tags:	פיוטים piyyutim, קינות Ḳinnot, השואה the Shoah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Alphabetic Acrostic, Third Reich, acronym
	There’s a lot of controversy over Yom haShoah as a date. One of the key issues is this: traditionally, the ways Jews mourn communal tragedies is through establishing a fast day. It’s forbidden to fast during the month of Nisan. It’s hard to pick any specific date to commemorate a tragedy as enormous as the Shoah, but one which seems appropriate to me would be 16 Marḥeshvan, the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the November Pogrom. This piyyut is a seliḥah for Kristallnacht, to be recited on 16 Marḥeshvan (or 15 Marḥeshvan on years like 5782 where the sixteenth falls on a Thursday). . . .

קִינָה עַל חֻרְבָּן הָאַחֲרוֹן | Lamentation on the Holocaust, by Shimon Zuker (1980)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Len Fellman (translation), Gertrude Hirschler (translation) and Simon Zuker
Categories:	Kristallnacht (16 Marḥeshvan), Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust
Tags:	20th century C.E., קינות Ḳinnot, 58th century A.M., the Holocaust, Cantillized readings in English
	A kinnah composed by a concentration camp survivor. . . .

‏אֵל מָלֵא רַחֲמִים תְפִילָה לַנִּסְפִּים בַּשּׁוֹאָה | El Malé Raḥamim Prayer for the Victims of the Shoah, by Rabbi Yehoyada Amir

Contributor(s):	Mona Lantz Levi (translation), Lada Moskalets (translation), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Yehoyada Amir
Categories:	Kristallnacht (16 Marḥeshvan), Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust
Tags:	mourning, השואה the Shoah, אל מלא רחמים El Malé Raḥamim, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., the Holocaust, Romanian translation, Ukrainian translation
	A prayer for the victims of the Holocaust in Hebrew with English, Romanian, and Ukrainian translations. . . .

סֵדֶר לְיוֹם הַשׁוֹאָה | Seder for Yom haSho’ah, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Contributor(s):	Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Categories:	Kristallnacht (16 Marḥeshvan), Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), Yom haShoah (27 Nisan)
Tags:	North America, symbolic foods, Mourning this Broken World, השואה the Shoah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., the Holocaust, כז ניסן, 27 Nissan, speaking truth to power
	The most traumatic event in recent Jewish history is the Holocaust. At this time, the survivors of the camps are aging, and in the lifespan of people alive today it is likely that the last survivor will die. We say we must never forget what happened during the Holocaust, but if we think of it as a tragedy that happened to our ancestors we will forget. But it has been 3000 years since the Exodus from Egypt, and the Haggadah keeps its history vivid and alive. We are taught that in each and every generation we are to think of ourselves as having been slaves in Egypt. May it be that just as we never forgot the wonders of the Exodus, so too we never forget the horrors of the Holocaust, and continue to strive that such horrors may never happen again until all live in freedom and peace. . . .

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