Herschel Grynszpan

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Mark Cartwright
by Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1988-078-07
published on 26 September 2024
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A photograph of Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Jew living in Paris who shot and killed Ernst von Rath, a secretary in the German embasssy there as a protest for how Jews werre being treated in Nazi Germany. The Nazis used the murder as an excuse for Kristallnacht (‘Night of Broken Glass’), an attack on Jews and Jewish property across Germany and Austria on 9-10 November, 1938. (German Federal Archives)

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