Occurring on the night of November 9-10, 1938, the state-sanctioned pogrom saw synagogues burned down, Jewish businesses and homes ransacked, and tens of thousands of Jewish men arrested and sent to concentration camps. On November 7, 1938, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan, a Polish Jew, went to the German Embassy in Paris and shot vom Rath in protest of the regime’s treatment of Jews – in particular, the expulsion of Polish Jews, including his own family, from Germany. Nearly 100 Jews were killed, thousands of businesses destroyed, hundreds (possibly thousands) of synagogues burned to the ground and more than 30,000 Jewish men arrested and deported to concentration camps – the first time the regime had imprisoned Jews on a large scale, simply because of their ethnicity and religion.