Discover a little-known chapter in Holocaust literature with this āriveting taleā of the 17-year-old Jew who was the first to take up arms against the Nazi regime (Wall Street Journal).
āReads like a thriller.ā āNew York Journal of Books
After learning about Nazi persecution of his family, Herschel Grynszpan (pronounced Greenspan) bought a small handgun and on November 7, 1938, went to the German embassy and shot the first German diplomat he saw. When the man died two days later, Hitler and Goebbels made the shooting their pretext for the stateāsponsored wave of Antisemitic terror known as Kristallnacht, still seen by many as an initiating event of the Holocaust.
Overnight, Grynszpan, a bright but naive teenager, was frontāpage news and a pawn in a global power struggle.
Discover a little-known chapter in Holocaust literature with this āriveting taleā of the 17-year-old Jew who was the first to take up arms against the Nazi regime (Wall Street Journal).
āReads like a thriller.ā āNew York Journal of Books
After learning about Nazi persecution of his family, Herschel Grynszpan (pronounced Greenspan) bought a small handgun and on November 7, 1938, went to the German embassy and shot the first German diplomat he saw. When the man died two days later, Hitler and Goebbels made the shooting their pretext for the stateāsponsored wave of Antisemitic terror known as Kristallnacht, still seen by many as an initiating event of the Holocaust.
Overnight, Grynszpan, a bright but naive teenager, was frontāpage news and a pawn in a global power struggle.