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The agonizing correspondence between Jewish family members ensnared in the Nazi grip and their American relatives Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so Luzie quickly became translator, intermediary, and advocate for family left behind. Soon an unending stream of desperate requests from German relatives made their way to Arnolds desk. Luzie Hatch had faithfully preserved her letters both to and from far-flung relatives during the World War II era as well as copies of letters written on their behalf. This extraordinary collection, now housed at the American Jewish Committee Archives, serves as the framework for Exit Berlin . Charlotte R. Bonelli offers a vantage point rich with historical context, from biographical information about the correspondents to background on U.S. immigration laws, conditions at the Vichy internment camps, refuge in Shanghai, and many other topics, thus transforming the letters into a riveting narrative. Arnolds letters reveal an unfamiliar side of Holocaust history. His are th

Who reads Exit Berlin : how one woman saved her family from Nazi Germany?

Author

Charlotte R. Bonelli; Natascha Bodemann

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300197525

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

3.85 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14