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Book

The unwanted : America, Auschwitz, and a village caught in between

Call Number

  • 940.5318 D632 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

Physical Description

xiii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary

"The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape the Nazis, and an illuminating account of America's struggle with the refugee crisis caused by the rise of Hitler. Official tie-in to the U.S. Holocaust Museum multi-year exhibit"--

Notes

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.

Contents

  • Foreword by Sara Bloomfield
  • November 1938
  • Visa lines
  • FDR
  • Kippenheim
  • Flight
  • "Save our souls"
  • Fifth column
  • Gurs
  • Marseille-Martinique
  • Les milles
  • "Enemy aliens"
  • "To the East"
  • Memory.

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