The Exit Visa

A Family's Flight from Nazi Europe

Sheila Rosenberg (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-78831-495-4 (ISBN)

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6th September, 1942: a middle-aged Jewish refugee stands on the Swiss side of the Franco-Swiss border above Geneva. He has been living in Switzerland since he fled Vienna in November 1938, as the Nazi persecution of the city’s Jewish population intensified. He is now waiting for the arrival of the wife he has not seen for nearly four years. Against all odds he has managed to get an entry permit for her to join him in Switzerland. She appears on the French side. They see each other. Call out. She begins to cross the few yards of no-mans-land that separate them. An official calls her back. She hesitates, turns, goes back - and is lost forever. This book tells the story of the wartime journey of Toni Schiff, as she ventured across Europe to the this fateful near-meeting at the Franco-Swiss border – and what happened next. Based on the extensive research of her daughter, Kindertransportee Hilda Schiff, and told by Sheila Rosenberg, who shared much of the later research and many of the research journeys, this book sheds light on the lives of one family – caught up in, and ultimately separated by, the tragic and tumultuous events of World War II.

Sheila Rosenberg was a teacher of English Literature and published in the area of Victorian Studies. She then moved into teaching, developing and publishing in English as a second language and in 2011 received an OBE for her contribution to ESOL teaching.

Prologue
1. Hilda
2. Vienna: Toni and the family up to February 1939
3. Escape to Belgium
4. Switzerland: The Moses Schiff story 1938-1942. The Swiss via
5. From Antwerp to Annemasse
6. The last journeys: Annemasse to Rivesaltes; Rivesaltes to Drancy
7. The last journeys: Convoy 33 to Auschwitz and Auschwitz
Epilogue: 'And the Sun Still Shone'

Erscheinungsdatum	14.06.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78831-495-6 / 1788314956
ISBN-13	978-1-78831-495-4 / 9781788314954
Zustand	Neuware