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Against time : letters from Nazi Germany, 1938-1939 /

Johannes Höber left Nazi Germany for America on November 12, 1938. His wife Elfriede and their nine-year-old daughter Susanne were unable to leave until September of the following year, after the outbreak of World War II. Fifty years later, Johannes and Elfriede's son found an old folder conta...

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Contributors: Hoeber, Francis W., (Translator, Editor), Hoeber, Johannes U., 1904-1977., Hoeber, Elfriede Fischer, 1904-1999.
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society Press, [2015]
Series:Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 105, pt. 1.
Subjects and Genres:
Hoeber, Elfriede Fischer, > 1904-1999 > Correspondence.
Hoeber, Johannes U., > 1904-1977 > Correspondence.
Hoeber, Elfriede Fischer, > 1904-1999.
Hoeber, Johannes U., > 1904-1977.
Hoeber, Johannes U. > 1904-1977
Hoeber, Elfriede > 1904-1999
1933-1945
Germans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Correspondence.
Political refugees > United States > Correspondence.
Political refugees > Germany > Correspondence.
Allemands > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Correspondance.
Germans.
Political refugees.
Social conditions.
Germany > Social conditions > 1933-1945.
Allemagne > Conditions sociales > 1933-1945.
Germany.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
United States.
Correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
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Table of Contents:
  • A folder full of old letters
  • Johannes and Elfriede
  • Getting out, Part I
  • Waiting
  • Getting to Philadelphia
  • Philadelphia
  • Getting "in"
  • Jo has a job
  • Uncle Karl says no
  • True friends
  • Uncle Karl says yes
  • Getting out, Part II
  • Epilogue: A family in America.

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