From Vienna to Shanghai to America-A Brother and Sister Escape the Nazis
Now in paperback, An Uncommon Journey is the true story of a Jewish brother and sister who fled their native Austria in September 1938, a week before war broke out. Destination? Shanghai. An Uncommon Journey addresses the universal issues of persecution and the will to survive. This unique memoir is told by siblings ten years apart who share very ......
Patrick Henry, working with more than one thousand unpublished autobiographical pages written by key rescuers and with documents, letters, and interviews never before available, reconsiders the Holocaust rescue of Jews on the plateau of Vivarais-Lignon between the years 1939 and 1944. Henry carefully examines the general research of the last ......
The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain, 1938-1945
Between December 1938 and September 1939, nearly ten thousand refugee children from Central Europe, mostly Jewish, found refuge from Nazism in Great Britain. This was known as the Kindertransport movement, in which the children entered as "transmigrants," planning to return to Europe once the Nazis lost power. In practice, most of the kinder, as ......
My Youth in Prussia, Surviving Hitler and a Life Beyond
This is the story of a remarkable life and a journey, from the privileged world of Prussian aristocracy, through the horrors of World War II, to high society in the television age of postwar America. It is also an account of a spiritual voyage, from a conventional Christian upbringing, through marriage to Pastor Martin Niemoeller, to conversion to ......
Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies contains select papers on various topics of culture and literature in Central and EastEurope from Canadian and U.S. conferences. Organized by the editor, Steven Toetoesy de Zepetnek, the work presented in this volume is based on 1) the notion of the existence and the describability and analysis of a ......
The papacy has long played a crucial role in western civilization. To many, its history and theology have seemed steeped in hostility toward the Jews. In the post-World War II era, the initial focus was on Pope Pius XII's stance during the Holocaust; it soon expanded, however, to the broader question of the papacy and the Jews. The present work ......
Josiah E. Dubois, Jr. and the Struggle for a U.S. Response to the Holocaust
Blowing the Whistle on Genocide tells the story of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., a young Treasury Department lawyer who risked his career to alert the world to the Holocaust. As Nazism rose in Germany, many countries refused to allow Jewish immigration. The United States spurred on by the America First Committee wanted to remain neutral during the early ......