Herschel Grynszpan, now in jail awaiting trial for the assassination of a German Embassy official in November, 1938, today received a letter from his father saying the entire family, including Herschel’s parents, sister and brother, had arrived safely in Wilno, Lithuania, from Nazi Poland.
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