Café Glechik, located at 3159 Coney Island Avenue, was opened by Odessa native Vadim Tesler in 1998. The Ukranian restaurant quickly established itself as one of Brighton Beach's best.
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Brooklyn meets Maine circa 1950 at Sheepshead Bay's Jordan's Lobster Dock. Outdoor picnic tables are the prime seats in summertime to enjoy anything from broiled or fried platters to chowder, but the real catch is the lobster--served up to three pounds. Film buffs will recognize the spot as the inspiration for the indie film "Brooklyn Lobster," which chronicles the real life financial struggle of the Jordan family.
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A notorious pogrom throughout Germany and Austria launched by Hitler's propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels in November 1937. The Night of Broken Glass marked the first large-scale violence against Jews and paved the way for their eviction from Germany. The pretext for the assault was the fatal shooting in Paris of a German diplomat by 17-year-pld Herschel Grynszpan, who sought to avenge Germany's expulsion of 17,000 Polish Jews.
More than 900 synagogues were set ablaze and some 7500 homes and businesses were vandalized. 91 Jews were murdered, countless numbers injured, and approximately 30,000 subsquently deported to Dachau, Buchenwald and Sachesenhausen soon hereafter. A fine of one billion recihmarks was levied on the Jewish community and a central office for Jewish emigration was created.
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The Holocaust Memorial Park, at the foot of Sheepshead Bay between Shore Boulevard and Emmons Avenue, was created in 1985 through the efforts of the Holocaust Memorial Committee with the support of Community leaders and legislators. Dedicated officially in June 1985 by Mayor Edward Koch, the Park has been the site of memorial programs. During these years, the Holocaust Memorial Committee campaigned to have a permanent memorial to the victims of the Shoah erected at the park. With funding allocated by the Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden, the permanent Holocaust Memorial was officially completed and dedicated in 1997 by Mayor Rudolph Giulianni and thousands of names have already been inscribed on granite markers in The Holocaust Memorial Park. At New York's first public memorial to the Holocaust, an eternal light shines in lasting memory of those who perished and as a beacon of hope for the future. A field of granite markers, inscribed with places and important historical events related to the Holocaust, will educate and inspire future generations to remember.
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