Language:
German
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Exilforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
19 (2001) 41-64
Keywords:
Sallis-Freudenthal, Margarete,
;
Frank, Meta,
;
David, Ruth L.,
;
Goldmann, Robert B.,
;
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Economic aspects
;
Jews, German Biography
;
Jews, German Biography
;
Jews, German Biography
;
Germany Emigration and immigration 1933-1945
;
History
Abstract:
Describes the means by which the Nazi authorities extracted money from Jews planning emigration: freezing of their bank accounts and a series of taxes that together amounted to almost total expropriation. The Jews, already empoverished by Aryanization, reached their countries of refuge without minimal means of existence. Traces the process of empoverishment in Germany and the struggle to make a living in the new country of four Jewish families from Hesse: Margarete Sallis-Freudenthal of Frankfurt, in Palestine; Meta Frank, of the Königsthal family of Karlshafen, in Palestine; Ruth L. David, of the Oppenheimer family of Fränkisch-Crumbach, who was sent on a Kindertransport to England and was the sole survivor of her family; and the Goldmann family of Reinheim and Frankfurt, with their son Robert, who were able to establish themselves in the U.S. with the aid of smuggled currency. Afterward, when the survivors applied for restitution of their property, they often found that they had to deal with the same officials who had carried out the expropriation, and who were unrepentant, obstructive, and still antisemitic, as were the new owners of the property.
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