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RATH, ERNST VOM (1909-1938) Third secretary at the German Embassy in Paris who was assassinated on November 7, 1938 by Herschel Grynszpan (see GRYNSZPAN, HERSCHEL). RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS Term applied to those non-Jews who, at the risk of their own lives, saved Jews from their Nazi persecutors.  |
