KristiAllnachnacht Survivor Walter Bingham warns of the rise of antisemitism today
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Eighty-seven years after surviving the horrors of Krististallnacht, a 101-year-old Holocaust survivor says the country today feels a lot like Nazi Germany in 1938.
Walter Bingham was 14 years old when the Nazis and other Germans attacked Jewish businesses, shops, homes and places of worship.
During Krististallnacht, often called the “night of broken glass,” the Nazis burned more than 1,400 synagogues, destroyed thousands of Jewish-owned businesses, and even destroyed Jewish religious objects, according to the United States Memorial Museum.
About 26,000 men were also arrested and put into concentration camps because they were Jewish.
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A shop owned by a Jew is defaced with antisemitic graffiti following a Nazi attack in 1938. (Photos from History / Universal Pictures Group / Gentty)
Bingham, 101, told the Associated Press that the current climate facing Jews and rising antisemitism behind Israel – the war with Hamas is reminiscent of these dark times.
“We are living in a time like 1938, where synagogues are being burned, and people on the street are being attacked,” he said.
Holocaust Survivor Walter Bingham, 101, lays them in Jerusalem at the Great Synagogue on November 5, 2025 before celebrating the 87th anniversary of Krististallnacht. (Leo Correa/AP)
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A synagogue in Manchester was the target of a deadly terrorist attack on Yom Kippur in October when a man drove a car into worshipers and stabbed victims outside the Heathen Park Hebrew, killing two Jewish men.
A synagogue in Melbourne, Australia, was organized last year in an act that was condemned as an antisemitic attack by the country’s Prime Minister.
In 2024, the anti-defamation league reported 9,354 antisemitic incidents across the United States – a 54% increase from 2023, a 344% increase over the past five years, and an 893% increase over the past decade.
Demonstrators are threatened with Israeli flags and radiation outside the lower street on the street in Westminster in Octminster on Oct. 9, 2025, during the campaign against the manifestation of antisemitism to mark one week since the attack on the Manchester Synagogue. (Lucy North/PA Images/Getty)
“Antisemitism, I don’t think, will ever completely disappear because it’s a panacea for the whole world,” Bingham told the funny press.
He said that life in today’s situation feels like Germany before the war, but he sees one important difference.
“In those days, Jewish thought was mailecocetic,” Bingham explained. “Please don’t do anything to me, I won’t do anything to you.”
Israeli soldiers watch the northern Gaza Strip from Southern Israel, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo / Ohad Zwigenberg)
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“Today, we thank, thank God, the State of Israel, a very strong state,” he said. “And when the memorials are going up, the one thing that will never happen would be the Holocaust, because the State will see it” that doesn’t happen.
