Michael Tippett
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Sir Michael Kemp Tippett was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. In his lifetime he was sometimes ranked with his contemporary Benjamin Britte
Tippett late in life. He was active into his 90s.
Stamford School, which Tippett attended between 1920 and 1923
The Royal College of Music, where Tippett studied between 1923 and 1928
Herschel Grynszpan
Herschel Grynszpan
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Herschel Feibel Grynszpan was a Polish-Jewish expatriate born and raised in Weimar Germany who shot the Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on November 7, 1938 in Paris. The Nazis used this assassinat
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…Dublin Easter Rising of 1916, he based his work on a more immediate event: the murder in Paris of a German diplomat by a 17-year-old Jewish refugee, Herschel Grynszpan. This murder triggered Kristallnacht (Crystal Night), a coordinated attack on Jews and their property throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938…
Grynszpan after his arrest, 1938
Memorial for Herschel and his sister, Esther, at their last residence in Hanover