A local Holocaust survivor spoke up on the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the Night of the Broken Glass, when Nazis destroyed Jewish businesses, synagogues and hospitals in Germany.

“I am totally depressed about what’s going on,” said Holocaust survivor Judy Kolb.

Hoping to prevent history from repeating, Kolb is remembering the anniversary of Kristallnacht which historians view as the beginning of the Holocaust.

“It’s absolutely incredibly horrible that people can’t see that if things don’t turn around, it could get very ugly,” Kolb said.

Before moving to Chicago, Kolb was born in a Jewish ghetto in China after her parents fled Nazi Germany following Kristallnacht in 1938.

“They were deported, eventually ended up in Auschwitz,” Kolb said of some of her relatives who were sent

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