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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1986 1(2):217-228; doi:10.1093/hgs/1.2.217
© 1986 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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HERSCHEL GRYNSZPAN: THE FATE OF A FORGOTTEN ASSASSIN*

RON ROIZEN

Berkeley, California

Herschel Feibel Grynszpan assassinated Nazi foreign service officer Ernst vom Rath in Paris on 7 November 1938. The event provided the Nazi establishment with an occasion for Knstallnacht, a brutal pogrom launched against Jews and Jewish institutions inside the territory of the Third Reich on the night of 9–10 November 1938. Grynszpan was taken into French custody A number of post-war sources have contended that Grynszpan survived French and later Nazi captivity only to resume his Paris residence after the war and start a family. A search of relevant literature, however, fails to support this conclusion It is argued that Grynszpan probably perished while still in Nazi captivity. It is also argued that Grynszpan's present historical obscurity may reflect the painful and still unresolved status of the moral issues his action symbolized.

*The author would like to thank David Rome, of Beverly Hills, California, for providing a copy of Cuenot's memoir on the Grynszpan case, Agnes Peterson of the Hoover Institution Library for her help in locating sources and Gisela Roizen and Illeana Benhamou for their translations of vanous German and French matenals


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