Proud Jewish Boy tells the fascinating and controversial story of Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old German Jewish refugee who, in November 1938, assassinated the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris. The act was immediately exploited by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels to trigger retaliatory attacks against Jews in Germany and Austria during Kristallnacht, a prelude to the persecutions that would ultimately lead to the Holocaust.
MAIN THEMES :
The escalating persecution of Jews in Germany;
The expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany in 1938;
The distress of a young man facing international inaction.
