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The Holocaust

Polish Jew shot the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in the German Embassy in Paris

Monday Nov 7, 1938
Paris, France

On 7 November 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a Polish Jew, shot the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in the German Embassy in Paris, in retaliation for the expulsion of his parents and siblings from Germany.


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