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Journey to America

Journey to America more books like this

by Sonia Levitin

The courageous story of a Jewish family who dares to escape from Germany during World War II. This book has two sequels-"Silver Days" and "Annie's Promise."

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An Interrupted Past: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States After 1933

An Interrupted Past: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States After 1933 more books like this

by Hartmut Lehmann, David Lazar (Editor), Professor Christof Mauch (Editor)

The essays in An Interrupted Past describe the fate of those German-speaking historians who fled from Nazi Europe to the United States. Their story is set into several contexts: the traditional relationship between German and American historiography, the evolution of the German historical profession in the twentieth century, the onset of Nazi ...

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The Use and Abuse of Political Asylum in Britain and Germany

The Use and Abuse of Political Asylum in Britain and Germany more books like this

by Liza Schuster

Analysing asylum in Britain and Germany from a historical and conceptual perspective, this book provides a comparative study of asylum and refugee policies. Governments in Europe have been accused of using and abusing these policies with minimal regard for the asylum seekers' protection. This book is an interdisciplinary work, bringing together ...

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Hitler's Exiles: The German Cultural Resistance in America and Europe

Hitler's Exiles: The German Cultural Resistance in America and Europe more books like this

by Volkmar Zulhsdorff, Martin Bott (Translator)

Hitler's Exiles is an extraordinary first-hand account of the German Academy, which was established in 1936 as a platform for German intellectuals in America to speak out against Hitler. Its membership covered the leading German-speaking intellectuals who went into exile in opposition to Hitler's Nazi government - including such eminent names as ...

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Return to Dresden

Return to Dresden more books like this

by Maria Ritter

Ritter's memoir sweeps through German history of the 1930s and 40s as she meditates on how she and her people figure in the tragic story of defeat and debacle. In her recollections, in listening to the voices of her kin, and in speaking out about the past, she finds the humane way to healing and reconciliation.

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Eva's War: A True Story of Survival

Eva's War: A True Story of Survival more books like this

by Eva Krutein

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Escape from Leipzig

Escape from Leipzig more books like this

by Professor Harald Fritzsch, Professor Karin Heusch (Translator), G 'T Hooft (Foreword by)

In the 1960s, Leipzig was the center of resistance in East Germany. Harald Fritzsch, then a physics student, contemplated escape. But before he left, he wanted to demonstrate to the government that they had gone too far when they destroyed St Paul's Church in May 1968. He accomplished that by unrolling a protest transparency in spectacular fashion ...

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Fire Burn

Fire Burn more books like this

by Irene Zarina White

Fire Burn is based on diaries kept during World War II by a single, young professional woman, Irene Zarina White. From September 1939 through May 1946 Irene lived under four different governments: the Republic of Latvia, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and the United States Occupation. She carefully recorded the details of each governments regime ...

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Little Girl Lost: A Powerful True Story of Surviving the Unimaginable

Little Girl Lost: A Powerful True Story of Surviving the Unimaginable more books like this

by Barbie Probert-Wright, Jean Ritchie

This work features: two sisters, a broken childhood, and a heartbreaking journey. This is the extraordinary true story of surviving the unimaginable...In 1945, seven-year-old Barbie and her sister Eva were trapped, terrified, in wartorn Germany. With their father missing, and hundreds of miles from their mother, news of the approaching army left ...

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A Sea Change

A Sea Change more books like this

by Michael Arditti

'This is the story of how I became a man ...' In May 1939, the SS St. Louis left Hamburg for Havana, carrying almost a thousand refugees from Hitler's Germany. Over the following weeks, the ship criss-crossed the ocean, buffeted alternately by hope and disappointment, as it sought asylum in a friendly port and war drew inexorably closer. Based on ...

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From Red to Green: Interviews with New Left Review more books like this

by Rudolf Bahro

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With the Wind to the West: The Great Balloon Escape more books like this

by Jurgen Petschull, Courtney Searls-Ridge (Translator)

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Refugees of Revolution: The German Forty-Eighters in America more books like this

by Carl Frederick Wittke

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Escape from Leipzig more books like this

by H Fritzsch, Professor Harald Fritzsch

In the 1960s, Leipzig was the center of resistance in East Germany. Harald Fritzsch, then a physics student, contemplated escape. But before he left, he wanted to demonstrate to the government that they had gone too far when they destroyed St. Paul's Church in May 1968. He accomplished that by unrolling a protest transparency in spectacular ...

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A woman in the house more books like this

by William Edmund Barrett

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Uncertain Flight more books like this

by Monica Knott

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Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individual Fates and Global Impact more books like this

by Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world. "Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany" is the first thoroughly documented account of this exodus. In this greatly expanded translation of the 1998 German edition, Reinhard Siegmund ...

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Tikhon more books like this

by Ilse Margret Vogel

Tikhon, a Russian soldier trapped without identification papers in post-World War I Germany, becomes a unique and much-loved companion to young Inge when her parents harbor him in their basement.

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Expelling the Germans: British Opinion and Post-1945 Population Transfer in Context more books like this

by Matthew James Frank

Expelling the Germans focuses on how Britain perceived the mass movement of German populations from Poland and Czechoslovakia at the end of the Second World War. Drawing on a wide range of British archival material, Matthew Frank examines why the British came to regard the forcible removal of Germans as a necessity, and evaluates the public and ...

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Exil in Grossbritannien : zur Emigration aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland more books like this

by Gerhard Hirschfeld

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Nicht Rache, nicht Vergeltung : die deutschen Vertriebenen more books like this

by Ekkehard Kuhn

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Im "Luftschutzkeller Des Reiches": Evakuierte in Bayern 1939-1953: Politik, Soziale Lage, Erfahrungen more books like this

by Katja Klee

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Made in Gdr: Jugendszenen Aus Ost-Berlin more books like this

by Karl Winkler

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Soziale und berufliche Umschichtung der Bevölkerung in Bayern nach 1945 : eine Sekundäranalyse der Mikrozensus-Zusatzerhebung von 1971 more books like this

by Johann Handl

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Displaced Poets: Jiddische Schriftsteller Im Nachkriegsdeutschland, 1945-1951 more books like this

by Tamar Lewinsky

Based on largely unknown source material, this study tells the forgotten story of Yiddish literature and culture in post-war Germany. German text.

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