The Short, Strange Life of Hershel Grynszpan: a Boy Avenger, A Nazi Diplomat and a Murder in Paris
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Sunday, April 19, 2015, 2:00-3:30pm
The Short, Strange Life of Hershel Grynszpan: a Boy Avenger, A Nazi Diplomat and a Murder in Paris, by Jonathan Kirsch
Author, Jonathan Kirsch was on campus to discuss, sell and sign his book.
On the morning of November 7, 1938, a seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, Herschel Grynszpan, walked into the German embassy in Paris and in an act of desperation assassinated Ernst vom Rath, a low-level Nazi diplomat. He did it, he said, out "of love for my parents and for my people." Two days later, vom Rath lay dead, and the Third Reich exploited his murder to inaugurate its long-planned campaign of terror against Germany's Jewish citizens, in the mass pogrom that became known as Kristallnacht. In a bizarre concatenation of events that would rapidly involve Ribbentrop, Goebbels, and Hitler himself, Grynszpan would become the centerpiece of a Nazi propaganda campaign that would later describe his actions as "the first shot of the Jewish War."
ISBN
9780871407405
Publication Date
Spring 4-19-2015
Keywords
Jewish, Grynszpan, refugee
Disciplines
History | Jewish Studies
Recommended Citation
Kirsch, Jonathan, "The Short, Strange Life of Hershel Grynszpan: a Boy Avenger, A Nazi Diplomat and a Murder in Paris" (2015). Jewish Studies Sunday Book & Discussion Group. 54.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/jewishbookgroup/54
