The plight of individual German Jews—Hava and Baruch, for example—as set forth in the book, The Six Days of Destruction, leads to a 50th anniversary account of Kristalnacht, the night of the broken crystal. This refers to the enemy’s poetic name for the murderous pogrom in Germany and Austria on November 9-10, 1938. It was not so much the beginning of the end as it was the end of the beginning. The event came as a cruel response to the young Jew Hershel Grynspan’s assassination of a German official, a praiseworthy attempt to restore Jewish honor. And until late 1941 Jews could still emigrate from Germany. But there was no where to go. For the first time in Jewish history, there was a divorce between the (European) Jews facing a death sentence and those Jews elsewhere living unthreatened. If human beings would not help or intervene, why didn’t God? asks the protagonist of the novel, Twilight—addressing a madman who believes himself to be the Almighty, as it were. A Midrash speaks of God’s two tears falling into the ocean. Instead, they should fall on our hearts.