In the Wake of Madness: My Family's Escape from the Nazis

A cache of poignant letters

A narrow escape from Nazi-occupied Europe

A family scattered and forever changed by war

In 1940, thousands of Jewish refugees descended upon sunny Lisbon, desperately scrambling to acquire visas to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. Among them were Elsa and Saly Levi, a young German-Jewish couple who thought they had found safety in neutral Belgium-until Nazi bombs began to fall. Their eyes were fixed on America, but anywhere would do, as long they were far from the Nazis...