"It's like a modern-day Kristallnacht," railed Lore Baer, an Amsterdam native who was born three months before the infamous 'Night of Broken Glass'. "This is history repeating itself. It's really haunting."
The unprovoked attack on Israeli soccer fans is being described as a "classic pogrom." Jewish men, women, and children were rammed by cars, beaten on the streets, stabbed, and thrown into canals.
Police 'inaction' enabled the violence to continue for hours, according to watchdogs. Victims reportedly felt unsafe with local police, who advised them to stay indoors.
As she watched eerily familiar scenes of Jews being hunted and pummeled, Baer recalled the horror of Kristallnacht for 'the crime' of being a Jew. I'm sitting here crying."
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