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 xvi
... September 1938 , when the Nazi persecution of the Jews was already well in progress , and when prospects for finding refuge in America were becoming slimmer because more and more Ger- man Jews were applying for visas under a national ...
... September 1938 , when the Nazi persecution of the Jews was already well in progress , and when prospects for finding refuge in America were becoming slimmer because more and more Ger- man Jews were applying for visas under a national ...
Pagina xvii
... September 1939. Facing the Gestapo - imposed deadline to leave Germany or face arrest , the Schohl family chose Yugoslavia as a temporary refuge in hopes of using that Balkan state as a springboard to emigration to Brazil . But before ...
... September 1939. Facing the Gestapo - imposed deadline to leave Germany or face arrest , the Schohl family chose Yugoslavia as a temporary refuge in hopes of using that Balkan state as a springboard to emigration to Brazil . But before ...
Pagina xviii
... September 1939 , when some 45,210 ethnic German aliens , most of them Jews , entered the United States under the newly com- bined German - Austrian quota . Anti - immigration activists complained that the alien newcomers threatened to ...
... September 1939 , when some 45,210 ethnic German aliens , most of them Jews , entered the United States under the newly com- bined German - Austrian quota . Anti - immigration activists complained that the alien newcomers threatened to ...
Pagina 14
... September 1923 , 5 and 10 billion bills in October , and a 100 trillion note in November . Even the biggest bills were like chaff in the wind at the height of the hyperinflation in late November , when one American dollar was worth a ...
... September 1923 , 5 and 10 billion bills in October , and a 100 trillion note in November . Even the biggest bills were like chaff in the wind at the height of the hyperinflation in late November , when one American dollar was worth a ...
Pagina 17
... September 14 , 1920 , the workers at the Opel factory in Rüsselsheim went on strike to protest their inability to feed their families on their current wages ; they demanded wage increases as well as a reduction in the price of potatoes ...
... September 14 , 1920 , the workers at the Opel factory in Rüsselsheim went on strike to protest their inability to feed their families on their current wages ; they demanded wage increases as well as a reduction in the price of potatoes ...
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.