Andrea A. Sinn is associate professor of history and O'Briant Developing Professor at Elon University.Andreas Heusler is head of the contemporary history and Jewish history department at the Munich City Archives.

This expertly edited collection brings fresh insights to the remarkable story of German-Jewish displacement in the heart of the 20th century. Sinn and Heusler have assembled a first-rate collection of testimonies and woven them together to provide a portrait of an uprooted community. Highly recommended for classroom teachers, researchers, and anyone who wants to know more about Jewish migration to the United States.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Hitler’s Munich to American ExileAndrea Sinn and Andreas HeuslerPart I: Heimat – Jewish Life in Germany and Nazi PersecutionChapter 1: Munich, 1933–1938Ernest B. HofellerChapter 2: The Munich Years Erich HartmannChapter 3: A Student’s Fate, 1933–1945Christine Roth-SchurtmanChapter 4: The Jaws of the Swastika TightenFred BissingerChapter 5: An Emotional HandicapHugo HolzmannChapter 6: A Jewish Childhood in Nazi GermanyPesach SchindlerChapter 7: “… What One Leaves Behind” Schwager Family LettersChapter 8: “I’m Alive: It’s a Miracle!”Blechner Family LettersPart II: Exile – Emigration and New Beginnings AbroadChapter 9: My New Life in the U.S.Inge MossChapter 10: Tossed by the Wind: A Proud Journey from 1920 to 1994Ilse E. ScholleChapter 11: Tossed by the Storms of History: Experiences of a SurvivorCharlotte Haas SchuellerChapter 12: MemoriesHanns Peter MerzbacherChapter 13: A Family His

Andrea A. Sinn is associate professor of history and O'Briant Developing Professor at Elon University.Andreas Heusler is head of the contemporary history and Jewish history department at the Munich City Archives.

This expertly edited collection brings fresh insights to the remarkable story of German-Jewish displacement in the heart of the 20th century. Sinn and Heusler have assembled a first-rate collection of testimonies and woven them together to provide a portrait of an uprooted community. Highly recommended for classroom teachers, researchers, and anyone who wants to know more about Jewish migration to the United States.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Hitler’s Munich to American ExileAndrea Sinn and Andreas HeuslerPart I: Heimat – Jewish Life in Germany and Nazi PersecutionChapter 1: Munich, 1933–1938Ernest B. HofellerChapter 2: The Munich Years Erich HartmannChapter 3: A Student’s Fate, 1933–1945Christine Roth-SchurtmanChapter 4: The Jaws of the Swastika TightenFred BissingerChapter 5: An Emotional HandicapHugo HolzmannChapter 6: A Jewish Childhood in Nazi GermanyPesach SchindlerChapter 7: “… What One Leaves Behind” Schwager Family LettersChapter 8: “I’m Alive: It’s a Miracle!”Blechner Family LettersPart II: Exile – Emigration and New Beginnings AbroadChapter 9: My New Life in the U.S.Inge MossChapter 10: Tossed by the Wind: A Proud Journey from 1920 to 1994Ilse E. ScholleChapter 11: Tossed by the Storms of History: Experiences of a SurvivorCharlotte Haas SchuellerChapter 12: MemoriesHanns Peter MerzbacherChapter 13: A Family His

Andrea A. Sinn is associate professor of history and O'Briant Developing Professor at Elon University.Andreas Heusler is head of the contemporary history and Jewish history department at the Munich City Archives.

This expertly edited collection brings fresh insights to the remarkable story of German-Jewish displacement in the heart of the 20th century. Sinn and Heusler have assembled a first-rate collection of testimonies and woven them together to provide a portrait of an uprooted community. Highly recommended for classroom teachers, researchers, and anyone who wants to know more about Jewish migration to the United States.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Hitler’s Munich to American ExileAndrea Sinn and Andreas HeuslerPart I: Heimat – Jewish Life in Germany and Nazi PersecutionChapter 1: Munich, 1933–1938Ernest B. HofellerChapter 2: The Munich Years Erich HartmannChapter 3: A Student’s Fate, 1933–1945Christine Roth-SchurtmanChapter 4: The Jaws of the Swastika TightenFred BissingerChapter 5: An Emotional HandicapHugo HolzmannChapter 6: A Jewish Childhood in Nazi GermanyPesach SchindlerChapter 7: “… What One Leaves Behind” Schwager Family LettersChapter 8: “I’m Alive: It’s a Miracle!”Blechner Family LettersPart II: Exile – Emigration and New Beginnings AbroadChapter 9: My New Life in the U.S.Inge MossChapter 10: Tossed by the Wind: A Proud Journey from 1920 to 1994Ilse E. ScholleChapter 11: Tossed by the Storms of History: Experiences of a SurvivorCharlotte Haas SchuellerChapter 12: MemoriesHanns Peter MerzbacherChapter 13: A Family His