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by David Clay Large

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In this masterpiece of Holocaust literature, David Clay Large tells the wrenching story of Max Schohl, a German Jew who, in the midst of the Second World War, could not find a government that would allow his family to immigrate, despite wealth, education, and business and family connections. After repeated but fruitless efforts to gain entry first to the United States and then to Britain, Chile, and Brazil, Max died in Auschwitz and his wife and daughters were sent to hard labor in Wiesbaden.Much has been written about the West's unwillingness to attempt the rescue of tens of thousands of European Jews from the hands of the Nazis; now David Clay Large gives a human face to this tragedy of bureaucratic inertia and ill will. The youngest daughter of the Schohl family, today a seventy-four-year-old widow living in Charleston, South Carolina, has opened her family's records to Large: a unique collection of family letters and other documents chronicling the experiences of the Schohls and those who tried to bring them to England and America. From these papers Large has fashioned a gripping and intimate narrative of one family's efforts to escape the Holocaust in Europe and the inadequate response from abroad.

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and he would later insist that his children learn to play the piano. Like many German Jews, He became a great admire of Richard Wagner, not letting that compose's notorious anti-Semitism get in the way of his enjoyment of Die Meistersinger and Lohengrin.

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  • Title And the World Closed Its Doors: The Story of One Family Abandoned to the Holocaust
  • Author David Clay Large
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition export ed
  • Pages 278
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books (AZ), New York
  • Publication date May 6, 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780465038084 / 0465038085
  • Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.57 x 6.43 x 1.07 in (24.31 x 16.33 x 2.72 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Schohl, Max, Jews - Germany - Fl'orsheim
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002153720
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

David Clay Large, Professor of History at Montana State University, is a specialist in modern German history. He is the author of Where Ghosts Walked, Germans to the Front, Between Two Fires, and Berlin . He lives in Bozeman, Montana, and San Francisco, California.
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