Herschel Feibel Grynszpan was born in Hanover in 1921. His parents were Polish Jews who had immigrated to Germany several years before his birth. Herschel's education was cut short due to the discrimination that Jewish students were facing in the pre-war years. The family was deported in 1938. Herschel found himself becoming an assassin, murdering Ernst vom Rath, which led to his arrest by French police. The story of Herschel was dramatic, and I was really invested in what happened to him and his family during and after the war. This book was really good, and I hate that I waited so long to read it.