Seventy years have passed since the tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities came fully to light, it was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners. Yet for those who had survived th…
El SS Saint Louis pasó varios días anclado en La Habana en 1939 a la espera de las autoridades cubanas a permitir que 900 refugiados judíos de Alemania en su país. Confiado en que una pintura de Rembrandt que había pertenecido a su familia desde el siglo 17 - y que habían introd…
El SS Saint Louis pasó varios días anclado en La Habana en 1939 a la espera de las autoridades cubanas a permitir que 900 refugiados judíos de Alemania en su país. Confiado en que una pintura de Rembrandt que había pertenecido a su familia desde el siglo 17 - y que habían introd…
"Following the Nazi annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Desider Furst, his wife, and his daughter suddenly found themselves hunted outlaws, holders of a German passport branded with a red "J" for Jewish. They escaped from Vienna and eventually settled in England, where they …
Following the Nazi annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Desider Furst, his wife, and his daughter suddenly found themselves hunted outlaws, holders of a German passport branded with a red "J" for Jewish. They escaped from Vienna and eventually settled in England, where they s…
An Austrian father and daughter alternate chapters to recount how in 1938 they found themselves with German passports stamped with the red J for Jewish, escaped from Vienna and made their way to London where they lived out the war as enemy aliens, and emigrated to the US in 1971…
