Everyone Has Their Reasons
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9781629630946
Subjects: Fiction, biographical
Description: "At a time when the issues of identity, immigration, and class remain both universally important and enormously controversial, this book is an accessible and captivating tale of one boy's historically famous experience in the extraordinary setting of roiling pre-WWII Paris. On November 7, 1938, a small, slight 17-year-old Polish-German Jew named Herschel Grynszpan entered the German embassy in Paris and shot dead a consular official. Three days later, in supposed response, Jews across Germany were beaten, imprisoned, and killed, their homes, shops, and synagogues smashed and burned-Kristallnacht--the Night of Broken Glass."