The situation generated widespread outrage among the Jewish community in Poland , which conducted extensive efforts to help the internees in any way possible . It also prompted Herschel Grynszpan , a Polish Jew , to assassinate Ernst vom Rath , a German Embassy official in Paris , on November 7 , 1938 , which in turn provided the Nazis an excuse to carry out Kristallnacht , the anti-semitic pogrom of November 9 – 10 , 1938 . Eventually the Polish government finally allowed them , in stages , to enter the country
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
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