Hitler's Exiles : Personal Stories of the Flight from Nazi Germany to America Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	Chronology of Events	9
	"The Reichstag is burning..."
	The Reichstag Is Burning	23
	Berlin, 1933	28
	An Open Letter to Herr Goebbels	35
	Lives Transformed
	A Farmer from South Germany	39
	From the Eyes of a Mother	47
	Underground	59
	The 1936 Berlin Olympics	63
	The Night of Broken Glass
	A Doctor's View	69
	From the Eyes of a Child	78
	Vienna: To the West Station	83
	Heightening Persecution
	The Show Trial of a Shipping Magnate	99
	An Invitation from the Gestapo	108
	Waiting	116
	Flight
	Letter to Ernst Toller	135
	Paris-Switzerland-Prague	137
	Amsterdam-Paris	146
	Verona-Brussels	151
	On Varian Fry	154
	Fleeing through Occupied France	157
	On the Meaning of Exile
	The Grandeur and Misery of Exile	169
	Resisting America	173
	An Ordinary Day in the Life of an Emigrant	177
	On the Brink
	The Ill-Fated Steamship St. Louis	185
	Two Letters to Hermann Kesten	192
	The Last Day in Europe	195
	Seder on a Refugee Ship	198
	Liberty...and Work in New York
	The Sight of New York	207
	Starting Over in New York	211
	Arriving in New York	215
	Everything Is Always Different	223
	"The Privilege of Being Safe and Far Away"
	Advice from the Midwest	229
	'So Utterly Connected'	233
	My Last Day with Ernst Toller	240
	Ernst Toller's Last Day	244
	Exiles, Enemies, or Emigrants?
	The "Enemy Alien" Question	249
	Open Letter to President Roosevelt	251
	We Refugees	253
	The Exiled Writer's Relation to His Homeland	263
	A German Colony on the Pacific
	Life on the Pacific	271
	Letter from the L.A. Public Library	273
	A Part of Myself	274
	Exiled from Our Era	280
	New Lives
	A Second Childhood	289
	An Immigrant Family	296
	An American Life	399
	Becoming Gay, Becoming Jewish	311
	Caring for the Survivors	317
	False Youth	325
	Looking Homeward
	On Becoming an American	333
	On Being an Exile	337
	Bibliography	345
	Permissions	349