Portrait of Herschel Grynszpan taken after his arrest by French authorities for the assassination of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath.
Overview
- Caption
- Portrait of Herschel Grynszpan taken after his arrest by French authorities for the assassination of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath.
- Date
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1938 November 07
- Locale
- Paris, [Seine] France
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Morris Rosen
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Morris RosenSource Record ID: AV52716
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- ARRESTS/CAPTURE ASSASSINATION (VOM RATH) ASSASSINATIONS CLOSE-UPS GRYNSZPAN, HERSCHEL JEWS (GERMAN)
- Photo Designation
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INTERWAR EUROPE -- France
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Herschel Grynszpan (1921-1943?), born in Hannover, Germany, was the son of Polish Jews who had immigrated to Germany. In 1936 Grynszpan fled to Paris. On November 7, 1938, after having learned of the deportation of his parents from Germany to the Polish frontier, Grynszpan assassinated Ernst vom Rath, the third secretary of the German embassy in Paris. The diplomat's subsequent death two days later was used by the Nazi regime as justification for unleashing the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10. In 1940 Grynszpan was turned over to the Germans by the Vichy government, but the date and place of his death has never been clarified.
- Record last modified:
- 2009-08-17 00:00:00
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