Herschel Grynszpan

Herschel Grynszpan 

A Polish-German Jew who shot Nazi German foreign service officer Ernst vom Rath at the German Embassy in Paris on November 7, 1938, in protest against the deportation of thousands of Jews of Polish citizenship living in Germany, including his parents. The assassination provided the Nazis with the pretext for the long planned November pogroms against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on November 9–10, 1938, known as “Kristallnacht.”