And The World Closed Its Doors: The Story Of One Family Abandoned To The HolocaustBasic Books, 16 iun. 2009 - 310 pagini In this masterpiece of Holocaust literature, David Clay Large tells the wrenching story of Max Schohl, a German Jew who, in the midst of the Second World War, could not find a government that would allow his family to immigrate, despite wealth, education, and business and family connections. After repeated but fruitless efforts to gain entry first to the United States and then to Britain, Chile, and Brazil, Max died in Auschwitz and his wife and daughters were sent to hard labor in Wiesbaden. Much has been written about the West's unwillingness to attempt the rescue of tens of thousands of European Jews from the hands of the Nazis; now David Clay Large gives a human face to this tragedy of bureaucratic inertia and ill will. The youngest daughter of the Schohl family, today a seventy-four-year-old widow living in Charleston, South Carolina, has opened her family's records to Large: a unique collection of family letters and other documents chronicling the experiences of the Schohls and those who tried to bring them to England and America. From these papers Large has fashioned a gripping and intimate narrative of one family's efforts to escape the Holocaust in Europe and the inadequate response from abroad. |
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Pagina vii
... Hitler was quicker than the consuls on whose moods depended the visas that could save us . ALFRED POLGAR And you still thought , after the Nuremberg Laws and other horrors , that you were Germans ? But we were Germans ; the gangsters ...
... Hitler was quicker than the consuls on whose moods depended the visas that could save us . ALFRED POLGAR And you still thought , after the Nuremberg Laws and other horrors , that you were Germans ? But we were Germans ; the gangsters ...
Pagina xiii
... Hitler era , and with whom she became personally close following her emigration to America after the war . To the degree that I have been able to bring the Schohl family and their would - be American rescuers to life , and thereby to ...
... Hitler era , and with whom she became personally close following her emigration to America after the war . To the degree that I have been able to bring the Schohl family and their would - be American rescuers to life , and thereby to ...
Pagina xviii
... Hitler regime's racist policies caused occasional criticism from Western leaders and in the Western press , but there were no concerted efforts by the democratic governments to pressure the Nazis to alter their policies . In essence ...
... Hitler regime's racist policies caused occasional criticism from Western leaders and in the Western press , but there were no concerted efforts by the democratic governments to pressure the Nazis to alter their policies . In essence ...
Pagina xx
... Hitler era as to examine the consequences of high - level public policy at the " low " level of individual personal experience . What I try to do in this narrative is to attach a specific human face and voice to the otherwise bloodless ...
... Hitler era as to examine the consequences of high - level public policy at the " low " level of individual personal experience . What I try to do in this narrative is to attach a specific human face and voice to the otherwise bloodless ...
Pagina xxi
... Hitler took power in Berlin - and local Nazis accordingly seized control in Flörsheim - Max assumed that his past contributions to the community , along with his heroic war record , might afford him a certain protection . The reality ...
... Hitler took power in Berlin - and local Nazis accordingly seized control in Flörsheim - Max assumed that his past contributions to the community , along with his heroic war record , might afford him a certain protection . The reality ...
Cuprins
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No Entry for Jews | 25 |
Paper Walls | 53 |
The Night of the Crystals | 91 |
5 | 117 |
6 | 123 |
Notes | 235 |
Bibliography | 257 |
Index | 265 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
affidavits Altmaier American Consul American Jewish anti-Semitic Aryan asked Aunt Auschwitz Berlin Breitman and Kraut Britain Buchenwald cable camp Charleston chemical chemist Chile Committee Consulate in Stuttgart consuls daughter dear cousin Julius December Electro emigration factory Ferdy Midelburg Flörsheimer Frankfurt German Jews Germany's Gestapo Hela Hene Hitler Holocaust Holt hope HSAW Incasso Interview with KSW Jakob Altmaier January 14 Jewish community Jewish immigration Jewish refugees Juden in Flörsheim Julius Hess Julius's Kanawha College Käthe Schohl Kristallnacht letter Liesel Schohl Max Schohl Max's Moessmer mother Nazi Germany Non-Quota November Nuremberg Laws Orient Lloyd Palestine and Orient persecution pogrom political possible President quota Quoted in ibid racial received Reich Ruma Rüsselsheim Schiele sent September sister Norma soon Stamm Stuttgart thank tion took town United Ustaše vandals visas Volksdeutsche Wehrmacht Weimar Wiesbaden wife write wrote York Yugoslavia
Pasaje populare
Pagina 105 - The news of the past few days from Germany has deeply shocked public opinion in the United States.
Pagina vii - And shall we refuse the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land ? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe...
Pagina 105 - I myself could scarcely believe that such things could occur in a twentieth century civilization. With a view to gaining a first-hand picture of the situation in Germany I asked the Secretary of State to order our Ambassador in Berlin to return at once for report and consultation.
Pagina 55 - ... will, before issuing a visa, have to pass judgment with particular care on whether the applicant may become a public charge, and if the applicant cannot convince the officer that it is not probable, the visa will be refused.
Pagina 57 - ... with the Depression to slow the immigrant flow to the lowest point since the 1830s. Without question, Hitler was a major "push" factor of the period; Germany led the sending countries, and many more would have come if they had been permitted. In a campaign speech in October 1932, Herbert Hoover said, "With the growth of democracy in foreign countries, political persecution has largely ceased. There is no longer a necessity for the United States to provide an asylum for those persecuted because...
Pagina 101 - A wave of destruction, looting and incendiarism unparalleled in Germany since the Thirty Years' War, and in Europe generally since the Bolshevist revolution, swept over Great Germany today as National Socialist cohorts took vengeance on Jewish shops, offices and synagogues for the murder by a young Polish Jew of Ernst vom Rath, third secretary of the German embassy in Paris.
Pagina 235 - David S. Wyman, Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941...
Pagina 135 - If international finance Jewry in and outside Europe should succeed in forcing the peoples once again into a world war, the result would not be the Bolshevization of the earth and the triumph of Jewry, but the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe.