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On 10 November 1938, during the November Pogrom in Vienna, eight-year-old Arthur Schneier watched his synagogue burn on his way to school, UN News reported. The UN News feature looks back at the attacks on Jewish people and property in Vienna that morning, with firefighters and police officers reportedly standing by as the synagogue burned. It focuses on the personal experience of Schneier and the lasting human cost of the pogrom. The report is a retrospective account and does not add new details about the event's wider toll.