Assassination of Ernst Vom Rath

Question 1

12,000 Polish Jews in Nazi Germany

Answer 1

Arrested and sent back to Polish border in October 1938

Question 2

Herschel Grynzspan - 17 year old Polish Jew living in Paris

Answer 2

His parents and two sisters among 12,000 taken to Polish border

Question 3

Herschel entered German Embassy in Paris

Answer 3

Morning of 7 November 1938 with a revolver

Question 4

Herschel poses as a spy

Answer 4

Claims to have important documents - only hand them to high-ranking official

Question 5

Taken to office of Ernst Vom Rath

Answer 5

Member of SA since April 1933 - third secretary of German Embassy

Question 6

Herschel entered Ernst’s office

Answer 6

Ernst asked to see the essential documents

Question 7

Herschel pulled out revolver

Answer 7

Shouts “In the name of the 12,000 Jews, here are your papers!” - shot Ernst Vom Rath 5 times

Question 8

Afternoon of November 9 1938

Answer 8

Ernst Vom Rath dies

Question 8

Herschel thought in his mind

Answer 8

Avenger of Jewsih people

Question 9

Herschel’s actions

Answer 9

Greatly angered Hitler, the Nazi Party and many Germans

Question 10

Ernst Vom Rath’s assassination was a cause of Kristallnacht

Answer 10

as it was the perfect excuse for Hitler to put more blame on Jews and to use it as propaganda to start the violent pogroms all across Nazi Germany