Exit Berlin: How One Woman Saved Her Family from Nazi Germany

Centered around one family's preserved personal letters, this is "an intimate, engaging examination of the plight of German Jewish refugees" (Kirkus Reviews).

Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so Luzie quickly became translator, intermediary, and advocate for family left behind. Soon an unending stream of d...