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Exit Berlin - How One Woman Saved Her Family from Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
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Exit Berlin - How One Woman Saved Her Family from Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
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The agonizing correspondence between Jewish family members ensnared
in the Nazi grip and their American relatives Just a week after the
Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled
Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born
cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so
Luzie quickly became translator, intermediary, and advocate for
family left behind. Soon an unending stream of desperate requests
from German relatives made their way to Arnold's desk. Luzie Hatch
had faithfully preserved her letters both to and from far-flung
relatives during the World War II era as well as copies of letters
written on their behalf. This extraordinary collection, now housed
at the American Jewish Committee Archives, serves as the framework
for Exit Berlin. Charlotte R. Bonelli offers a vantage point rich
with historical context, from biographical information about the
correspondents to background on U.S. immigration laws, conditions
at the Vichy internment camps, refuge in Shanghai, and many other
topics, thus transforming the letters into a riveting narrative.
Arnold's letters reveal an unfamiliar side of Holocaust history.
His are the responses of an "average" American Jew, struggling to
keep his own business afloat while also assisting dozens of
relatives trapped abroad-most of whom he had never met and whose
deathly situation he could not fully comprehend. This book
contributes importantly to historical understanding while also
uncovering the dramatic story of one besieged family confronting
unimaginable evil.
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