Grynszpan, Herschel

The son of Polish Jews living in Germany, Grynszpan fled to Paris in 1936 to escape Nazi persecution. Days after the Nazis expelled Jews with Polish citizenship from Germany, Grynszpan assassinated German Embassy official Ernst vom Rath in Paris on November 7, 1938. The assassination was used as a pretext for the Kristallnacht pogroms on November 9-10, 1938. Grynszpan was arrested and handed over to the Germans, but details of his death are unknown.