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And The World Closed Its Doors: The Story Of One Family Abandoned To The Holocaust

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    And The World Closed Its Doors: The Story Of One Family Abandoned To The Holocaust

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    EAN: 9780465038084 SKU: BASICBOOKS- Categories: ,
    In this masterpiece of Holocaust literature, David Clay Large tells the wrenching story of Max Schohl, a German Jew who, in the midst of the Second World War, could not find a government that would allow his family to immigrate, despite wealth, education, and business and family connections. After repeated but fruitless efforts to gain entry first to the United States and then to Britain, Chile, and Brazil, Max died in Auschwitz and his wife and daughters were sent to hard labor in Wiesbaden.Much has been written about the West’s unwillingness to attempt the rescue of tens of thousands of European Jews from the hands of the Nazis; now David Clay Large gives a human face to this tragedy of bureaucratic inertia and ill will. The youngest daughter of the Schohl family, today a seventy-four-year-old widow living in Charleston, South Carolina, has opened her family’s records to Large: a unique collection of family letters and other documents chronicling the experiences of the Schohls and those who tried to bring them to England and America. From these papers Large has fashioned a gripping and intimate narrative of one family’s efforts to escape the Holocaust in Europe and the inadequate response from abroad.

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    Manufacturer Basic Books Author Large, David Clay
    ReleaseDate 2003-05-06T00:00:01Z Item Weight 1.3 Pounds
    ItemDimensions 6.5 x 1 x 9.5Inches NumberOfItems 1
    binding Hardcover Amazon Category Books » History » Military History » World War II History
    Amazon Category Books » History » World History » Jewish History » Jewish Holocaust History EAN 9780465038084
    ISBN 0465038085      
    Weight 1.30 lbs

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