ISBN:
9780755626212
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
Year of publication:
2003
Keywords:
Jewish refugees Biography
;
Jewish youth Biography
;
Jews History 1933-1945
;
Jews Migrations
;
European history
;
Germany Ethnic relations
Abstract:
Preface xi -- Introduction: Growing Up between Weimar and Hitler 1 -- Escape 29 -- Resistance 64 -- Israel: Immigration Jeckepotz 94 -- United States: Golden Country behind Paper Walls 129 -- World Revolution, or the Dream That Failed 161 -- Britain: Forever Refugees? 189 -- The Great Dispersal: Hotel Bolivia and Hotel Shanghai 215 -- Returning to Germany 241 -- Portrait of a Generation 268 -- Glossary 307 -- Bibliographical Essay 311 -- Index 329 -- Illustrations follow pages 116 and 232.
Abstract:
"This text is a generational history of the young people whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the rise of the Nazis. Half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. They were old enough to appreciate the loss of their homeland and the experience of flight, but often young and flexible enough to survive and even flourish in new environments. This generation has produced such disparate figures as Henry Kissinger and "Dr Ruth" Westheimer. Walter Laqueur has drawn on interviews, published and unpublished memoirs and his own experiences as a member of this group of refugees, to paint a vivid and moving portrait of Generation Exodus."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Also issued in print.
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
,
Text in English, translated from German
DOI:
10.5040/9780755626212
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