Herschel Grynszpan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Herschel Grynszpan

Confessed killer of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath

Date of Birth: 28-Mar-1921

Place of Birth: Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1942

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Herschel Feibel Grynszpan (German: Hermann Grünspan; 28 March 1921 – last rumoured to be alive 1945, declared dead 1960) was a Polish-Jewish refugee born in Germany.
His assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on 7 November 1938 in Paris was used by the Nazis as a pretext to launch Kristallnacht, the antisemitic pogrom of 9–10 November 1938.
Grynszpan was seized by the Gestapo after the Fall of France and brought to Germany; his fate remains unknown.
It is generally assumed that he did not survive the Second World War, and he was declared dead in 1960.
A photograph of a man resembling Grynszpan was cited in 2016 as evidence to support the claim that he was still alive in Bamberg, Germany, on 3 July 1946.
He is the subject of The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan, a book by Jonathan Kirsch and the novel Everyone Has Their Reasons by Joseph Matthews.