1st Edition
When the World Closed Its Doors Struggling to Escape Nazi-occupied Europe
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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"[A] memoir of one couple's escape from the Nazis ...[full of] ingenuity and determination." Michael R. Marrus, Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto At the beginning of World War II, the US and other countries erected a "paper wall"-- a bureaucratic maze that prevented all but a small number of Jewish refugees from emigrating from Nazi-Occupied Europe.When the World Closed Its... Read more
Chapter 1 We Dance at Our Wedding; Chapter 2 Jolted Awake; Chapter 3 Almost Arrested; Chapter 4 Escape by Train; Chapter 5 The Castle; Chapter 6 Toward La Panne, near Dunkirk; Chapter 7 Return to Antwerp; Chapter 8 Surviving under the Nazis; Chapter 9 Advice and Dissent; Chapter 10 Unpleasant Surprises in Paris; Chapter 11 Finding Shelter; Chapter 12 Over the Mountains; Chapter 13 Night in a Strange Hotel; Chapter 14 Visa Maze; Chapter 15 Escape; Chapter 16 Hopes Dashed; Chapter 17 The Train from Berlin; Chapter 18 Reprieve;
Biography
Piller-Greenspan, Ida; Branting, Susan M.
“Leaving abstractions and historical generalizations for others, this memoir of one couple's escape from the Nazis' clutches reminds us of concrete factors that saved Jews in Hitler's Europe: ingenuity and determination; getting to the right place at the right time ; receiving help at strategic moments; but most of all, sheer good luck.”
—Michael R. Marrus, Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto
