Author and critic Jonathan Kirsch dives into the events leading up to Kristallnacht in “The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan,” bringing to life a forgotten slice of history — not ...

Who was Herschel Grynszpan? He was a 17-year-old Polish Jew, born and raised in Germany, who in November 1938 walked into the German embassy in Paris, where he had been living for two years ...

Herschel Grynszpan in a photo from the German archives Bundesarchiv via WikiCommons At age 15, Herschel Grynszpan was just another Jewish refugee fleeing Nazi Germany for safe haven in pre-war France.

Ever since 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan assassinated a German diplomat in Paris on November 7, 1938 — two days before the Kristallnacht pogroms — Jews around the world have resisted ...

The “justification” for them was the assignation of a German official in Paris by a Polish-born Jew, Herschel Grynszpan.m A little background into Herschel’s history in the preceding years ...

Here is another reason why history has not been kind to Herschel Grynszpan. When he fired a shot in anger at a Nazi diplomat on that day in 1938, much of the Jewish world was still convinced that ...

My new book, “The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat and a Murder in Paris” (Liveright), is the biography of a 17-year-old boy who sought to write ...

On the night of Nov. 7, 1938, at the German Embassy in Paris, a 17-year-old Polish Jew named Herschel Grynszpan gained access to the office of a low-ranking Nazi named Ernst vom Rath by promising ...

Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. It is 1938. A young Jewish ...

Herschel Grynszpan was born in Germany to a family of Polish Jews, but he was not a German citizen, nor could he become one. A law passed in 1913 barred anyone not of “German blood” from ...

“The Strange Affair of Herschel Grynszpan” is a radical new musical workshop, based on the true story of a teenage assassin. It is 1938. A young Jewish refugee, Herschel Grynszpan, walks into ...