Their son Herschel Grynszpan was in Paris at the time.

In November 1938, Goebbels got the chance to take decisive action against the Jews for which he had been waiting when a Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan, shot a German diplomat in Paris, Ernst vom Rath, in revenge for the deportation of his family to Poland and the persecution of German Jews generally.

The pretext for the attacks was the assassination of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Polish Jew in Paris, France.

Rather than wait, Herschel and his parents decided that he should go to live with his uncle and aunt, Abraham and Chawa Grynszpan, in Paris.

It was from Zbąszyn that Berta Grynszpan sent a postcard to Herschel in Paris, telling him what had happened and pleading with him to rescue them and arrange for them to emigrate to America-something totally beyond his powers.

In the immediate aftermath of the assassination, two Paris Jewish lawyers, Szwarc and Vésinne-Larue, were engaged by the Grynszpan family.

According to this version of events, vom Rath was a homosexual, and met Grynszpan in a Paris bar, Le Boeuf sur le Toit.

From November 1938 to June 1940 Grynszpan was imprisoned in the Fresnes Prison in Paris while legal arguments continued over the conduct of his trial.

As a result, there was no trial, and Grynszpan was still in prison when the invading German Army approached Paris in June 1940.

Friedrich Grimm, by now an official of the German Foreign Ministry, and SS Sturmbannführer Karl Bömelburg arrived in Paris on 15 June with orders to find Grynszpan.

The problem was their belief that vom Rath had in fact been homosexual, that Grynszpan knew details of this ( these had been given to him by Moro-Giafferi in Paris ), and that he would reveal them in court.

On November 7, 1938, a young Polish Jew named Herschel Grynszpan attacked and shot German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in the Nazi-German embassy in Paris.

In 1938, Dorothy Thompson championed the cause of a Polish-German Jew Herschel Grynszpan, whose assassination in Paris of a minor German diplomat, Ernst vom Rath, had been used as propaganda by the Nazis to trigger the events of Kristallnacht in Germany.

: Exiled German Jew Herschel Grynszpan assassinates German consular aide Ernst Vom Rath in Paris.

Ernst Eduard vom Rath ( 3 June 1909 – 9 November 1938 ) was a German diplomat, remembered for his assassination in Paris in 1938 by a Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan.

Jarry lived in his ' pataphysical world until his death in Paris on 1 November 1907 of tuberculosis, aggravated by drug and alcohol use.

As his last work he prepared the text for the book Paris sans fin, a sequence of 150 lithographs containing memories of all the places where he had lived.

Monet lived from December 1871 to 1878 at Argenteuil, a village on the right bank of the Seine river near Paris, and a popular Sunday-outing destination for Parisians, where he painted some of his best known works.

Marker lived in Paris and very rarely granted interviews.

They lived outside of Paris in Pontoise and later in Louveciennes, both of which places inspired many of his paintings including scenes of village life, along with rivers, woods, and people at work.

The American impressionist Mary Cassatt, who at one point lived in Paris to study art, and joined his Impressionist group, noted that he was “ such a teacher that he could have taught the stones to draw correctly .”

Of Louise little is known after her early salacious life in Paris, but in due course she lived for a time in a convent in Savoy before her death in 1726.

Rue du Pot de Fer, on the Rive Gauche ( Paris ) | Left Bank, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris | 5th arrondissement, where Blair lived in Paris

His aunt Nellie Limouzin also lived in Paris and gave him social and, when necessary, financial support.

* Fashion designer Coco Chanel lived in the Hotel Ritz Paris on and off for more than 30 years.

* Mary Cassatt ( American-born, she lived in Paris and participated in four Impressionist exhibitions ) ( 1844 – 1926 )

During the 1890s Albéniz lived in London and Paris.

After the death of Cosimo II de ' Medici in 1621, he returned to Nancy where he lived for the rest of his life, visiting Paris and the Netherlands later in the decade.

Litzi lived in Paris before returning to London for the duration of the Second World War ; she ultimately settled in East Germany.

He lived in his Paris house ( now only small ruins ) located at Benson Point, across the Burgle Channel from Londres ( today London ) at Bridges Point where he established the port.

He said to a friend: " If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

He lived the life of a solitary writer until 1763 when, at 52 years of age, he went off to Paris to work at the British embassy.

In 1900, 9, 358 people lived in Paris ; in 1910, 11, 269 ; in 1920, 15, 040 ; and in 1940, 18, 678.

The Swedish author Mirjam Tapper has edited a book on Rilke's stay in Paris, where she reflected on the many addresses Rilke lived at and tried to find the correlation between his stay there and his poems.

After the Revolution, Prokofiev left Russia with the official blessing of the Soviet minister Anatoly Lunacharsky, and he lived in the United States, then Germany, then Paris, during which time he married a Spanish singer, Carolina (' Lina ') Codina, with whom he had two sons.

After a brief return in New York, he returned to Italy, then in 1970 moved to Paris, where he lived until the last two years of his life.

alt = Memorial plaque on the Champs-Élysées, Paris, France, marking where Jefferson lived while U. S. Minister to France.

for small master ) and the Muscadin have been noted by John C. Prevost, the modern practice of dandyism first appeared in the revolutionary 1790s, both in London and in Paris.

In Le Havre he painted portraits and small genre pieces for several months, before moving back to Paris.

" In 1945 she married her second husband, Huntington D Sheldon, at the close of the war on her assignment in Paris and she was discharged from the military in 1946, at which time she set up a small business in partnership with her husband.

By 1921, small groups of Marxists existed in six Chinese cities: Shanghai, Peking, Changsha, Wuhan, Canton and Tsinan, with a further group having been founded by Chinese students in Paris.

There is a small collection of transparencies at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris which shows a two-piece slide he used with one glass showing the face of a phantom and the other which had the image of the eyes, which when used meant the eyes could roll back and forth.

An example of siege during this time, prolonged during 337 days due to the isolation of the surrounded troops, was the Siege of Baler, in which a reduced group of Spanish soldiers, was besieged in a small church by the Philippine rebels, in the course of the Philippine Revolution and the Spanish-American War, until months after the Treaty of Paris, the end of the conflict.

Lastly, the work of Célestin Port, Dictionnaire historique, géographique et biographique de Maine-et-Loire ( 3 vols., Paris and Angers, 1874 – 1878 ), and its small volume of Préliminaires ( including a summary of the history of Anjou ), contain, in addition to the biographies of the chief counts of Anjou, a mass of information concerning everything connected with Angevin history.

Immediately before the war the partners concentrated on making light-weight racing cars, but a few years after the war, starting with the presentation of a Panhard based cabriolet at the 1950 Paris Motor Show, the company began to produce small road-going sports cars.

Yet before the reign of terror reached its climax, Georg Forster died of a stroke after a rheumatic illness in his small attic apartment at Rue des Moulins in Paris in January 1794, at the age of thirty-nine.

Le Verrier took the train to the village of Orgères-en-Beauce, some 70 kilometres southwest of Paris, where Lescarbault had built himself a small observatory.

Weir's first full-length feature film was the underground cult classic, The Cars That Ate Paris ( 1975 ), a low-budget black comedy about the inhabitants of a small country town who deliberately cause fatal car crashes and live off the proceeds.

* Dinah Dean's series of historical novels are set against the background of the Napoleonic Wars and are told from a Russian perspective – " The Road to Kaluga ", " Flight From the Eagle ", " The Eagle's Fate ", " The Wheel of Fortune ", " The Green Gallant " – follow a small group of soldiers ( and their relatives ) over months of campaigning from the fall of Moscow up to the liberation of Paris, the last 3 books – " The Ice King ", " Tatya's Story ", " The River of Time " – fall some years later but have the same cast of characters.

Upon their return, two small factories were constructed near Paris.

We should also note that the democratic element was not as strong as the mayor's words may seem to imply: in fact, Poitiers was similar to other French cities, Paris, Nantes, Marseille, Limoges, La Rochelle, Dijon, in that the town's governing body ( corps de ville ) was " highly exclusive and oligarchical ": a small number of professional and family groups controlled most of the city offices.

Furthermore, the small maintenance garrisons in the Verdun forts had to report to the central military bureaucracy in Paris.

With the end of the Seven Years ' War and the signing of the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), France ceded almost all of its territory in mainland North America, except for fishing rights off Newfoundland and two small islands where it could dry that fish.

The banking system consists of the Central Bank of the Comoros ( Banque Centrale des Comores ) established in 1981 that had three offices ( Moroni ( Grande-Comore ), Mutsamudu ( Anjouan ) and Fomboni ( Mohéli )); the Bank for Industry and Commerce ( Banque pour l ' Industrie et le Commerce — BIC ), a commercial bank established in 1990 that had six branches in 1993 and was a subsidiary of the National Bank of Paris — International ( Banque Nationale de Paris — Internationale ); the Development Bank of Comoros ( Banque de Développement des Comores ), established in 1982, which provided support for small and midsize development projects, the Federal Bank of Commerce ( Banque Fédérale de Commerce ) and the Exim Bank Comores Ltd.

Though the SI were a very small group, they were expert self-propagandists, and their slogans appeared daubed on walls throughout Paris at the time of the revolt.

Hauts-de-Seine and two other small départements, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne, form a ring around Paris, known as the Petite Couronne ( i. e. " little crown ").

Braille was born in Coupvray, France, a small town located southeast of Paris.

Muslim intellectuals and politicians from throughout the Levant formed al-Fatat (" the Young Arab Society "), a small Arab nationalist club in Paris.

Although this cemetery covers only a small section of underground tunnels comprising " les carrières de Paris " (" the quarries of Paris "), Parisians today often refer to the entire tunnel network as " the catacombs ".