The Uprooted: a Hitler Legacy: Voices of Those Who Escaped before the "Final Solution"

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• The Uprooted - A Hitler Legacy Voices of Those Who Escaped before the "Final Solution" *
• Title Page *
• Foreword vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Contents xi
• Prologue 1
• Part I - Under Hitler *
• Chapter 1 - The Moment Our Lives Stood Still 13
• Chapter 2 - The Tightening of the Noose 33
• Chapter 3 - Getting Out: the Obstacles 45
• Chapter 4 - The Sagas of Kurt and Franz 53
• Chapter 5 - Getting In: the Neighboring Cell 71
• Chapter 6 - Leaving: Three Vignettes 89
• Chapter 7 - Kristallnacht: the Beginning of the End 95
• Chapter 8 - Getting There 109
• Chapter 9 - Three Odysseys 113

• The Uprooted - A Hitler Legacy Voices of Those Who Escaped before the "Final Solution" *
• Title Page *
• Foreword vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Contents xi
• Prologue 1
• Part I - Under Hitler *
• Chapter 1 - The Moment Our Lives Stood Still 13
• Chapter 2 - The Tightening of the Noose 33
• Chapter 3 - Getting Out: the Obstacles 45
• Chapter 4 - The Sagas of Kurt and Franz 53
• Chapter 5 - Getting In: the Neighboring Cell 71
• Chapter 6 - Leaving: Three Vignettes 89
• Chapter 7 - Kristallnacht: the Beginning of the End 95
• Chapter 8 - Getting There 109
• Chapter 9 - Three Odysseys 113
• Chapter 10 - Die Kinder 127
• Chapter 11 - They Traveled through the Night 139
• Chapter 12 - And Most of All Smiles! 157
• Part II - Before Hitler *
• Chapter 13 - The Nest 177
• Chapter 14 - A Certain Style 185
• Chapter 15 - Reality or Illusion? 195
• Part III - The Years of Resettlement *
• Chapter 16 - A Placement, Not a Home 207
• Chapter 17 - So Many Reasons 221
• Chapter 18 - Fragments of the Children's Lives 237
• Chapter 19 - A Meeting of Minds and Hearts 271
• Chapter 20 - The Long Way Home 289
• Chapter 21 - Not Yet 297
• Chapter 22 - Internment 309
• Chapter 23 - Prison, Italian-Style 331
• Chapter 24 - The Road Upward 341
• Chapter 25 - The Farmer and the Taxidermist 353
• Chapter 26 - The Energy of Youth 359
• Part IV - The Emotional Aftermath *
• Chapter 27 - Don't Cry, Grandma! 375
• Chapter 28 - The Assimilated Outsider 389
• Chapter 29 - I Am Glad Hitler Missed One 401
• Epitaph - In Memoriam 415
• The Respondents 419
• Questionnaire 423
• References 431
• Index 435