Steel & Iridescent Glass, Concrete
  
| On November 6th 1938 Herschel Grynspan a young Jew living in Paris received a postcard from from his father Zindel. This card described the fathers deportation to the Polish frontier along with 18,000 other German Jews. Herschel was so angered by this that he went to the German embassy in Paris and shot the first German official that he saw. Ernst vom Rath, who later died from his wounds. The word reached Germany on November8th. Kristallnacht would commence on November 9th. "Kristallnacht, In Memory of Herschel Grynspan", Was create out of the need to commemorate action, even action that seems futile. It is about the ability to throw oneself into the void, real or metaphoric. To take action in a world that seems ultimently out of our control, is a measure of faith. The Hebrew word on the book translates, " remember". |
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