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Escaping Hitler: A Jewish Haven in Chile
Contributor(s): Wyman, Eva Goldschmidt (Author)
ISBN: 0817318003     ISBN-13: 9780817318000
Publisher: University Alabama Press
OUR PRICE:   $42.70  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: August 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Germany
- History | Jewish - General
- History | Latin America - South America
Dewey: 305.800
LCCN: 2013005900
Series: Judaic Studies (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.25" W x 9.26" (1.14 lbs) 232 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Germany
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
- Cultural Region - Latin America
- Topical - Holocaust
 
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Publisher Description:
Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family's escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country's major institutions. Based primarily oninterviewswith German Jewish refugees and family correspondence, Eva Goldschmidt Wyman provides an intimateaccount of Jews in Germany in the 1930s as Nazi controls tightened and family members were taken to Riga concentration camp. Wyman recounts Kristallnacht in Stuttgart, where her father was principal of the Jewish school, his imprisonment in Dachau, and his release and immigration to Great Britain. Escaping Hitler details the family's escape from Germany and subsequent life in Chile, providing an intimate look at daily life on the steam ship Conte Grande during the voyage from Italy to Chile in 1939, Nazi espionage and anti-Semitic activity in Chile, and the Nazi influence in South America in general. Recounted in an intimate and personal style, Escaping Hitler immerses the reader in an extraordinary chapter of contemporary Jewish history both inside Germany and South America.