Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-348).
Summary
First-hand accounts from some of the 130,000 German-speaking refugees to arrive in the United States between 1933 and 1945.
Contents
The Reichstag is burning / Alfred Döblin -- Berlin, 1933 / Käte Frankenthal -- An open letter to Herr Goebbels / Ernst Toller -- A farmer from South Germany / anonymous -- From the eyes of a mother / Marta Appel -- Underground / anonymous -- The 1936 Berlin Olympics / Peter Gay -- A doctor's view / Hertha Nathorff -- From the eyes of a child / Annemarie Wolfram -- Vienna: to the West station / anonymous -- The show trial of a shipping magnate / Arnold Bernstein -- An invitation from the Gestapo / Alice Salomon -- Waiting / Elisabeth Freund -- Letter to Ernst Toller / Hermann Kesten -- Paris-Switzerland-Prague / Käte Frankenthal -- Amsterdam-Paris / Marta Appel -- Verona-Brussels / Hilda Branch -- On Varian Fry / Hans Sahl -- Fleeing through occupied France / Ellen Schoenheimer.
The grandeur and misery of exile / Lion Feuchtwanger -- Resisting America / Ludwig Marcuse -- An ordinary day in the life of an emigrant / Alfred Kantorowicz -- The ill-fated steamship St. Louis / Max O. Korman -- Two letters to Hermann Kesten / Stefan Zweig -- The last day in Europe / Hans Natonek -- Seder on a refugee ship / Josef Thon -- The sight of New York / Marta Appel -- Starting over in New York / Arnold Bernstein -- Arriving in New York / Hertha Nathorff -- Everything is always different / Hilde Walter -- Advice from the Midwest / Lessie Sachs -- 'So utterly connected' / Sibylle Ortmann -- My last day with Ernst Toller / Klaus Mann -- Ernst Toller's last day / Ludwig Marcuse -- The "enemy alien" question / Gottfried Bermann-Fischer and Thomas Mann -- Open letter to President Roosevelt / Albert Einstein et al.
We refugees / Hannah Arendt -- The exiled writer's relation to his homeland / Thomas Mann -- Life on the Pacific / Alfred Polgar -- Letter from the L.A. Public Library / Alfred Döblin -- A part of myself / Carl Zuckmayer -- Exiled from our era / Bertolt Brecht -- A second childhood / Alice Herdan -- An immigrant family / anonymous -- An American life / Hertha Nathorff -- Becoming gay, becoming Jewish / Richard Plant -- Caring for the survivors / William Niederland -- False youth / Günther Anders -- On becoming an American / Peter Gay -- On being an exile / Henry Pachter.
