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The agonizing correspondence between Jewish family members ensnared in the Nazi grip and their American relatives
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 desperate requests from German relatives made their way to Arnold’s desk.
Luzie Hatch had faithfully preserved her letters both to and from far-flung relatives during the World War II era as well as copies of letters written on their behalf. This extraordinary collection, now housed at the American Jewish Committee Archives, serves as the framework for Exit Berlin. Charlotte R. Bonelli offers a vantage point rich with historical context, from biographical information about the correspondents to background on U.S. immigration laws, conditions at the Vichy internment camps, refuge in Shanghai, and many other topics, thus transforming the letters into a riveting narrative.
Arnold’s letters reveal an unfamiliar side of Holocaust history. His are the responses of an “average” American Jew, struggling to keep his own business afloat while also assisting dozens of relatives trapped abroad—most of whom he had never met and whose deathly situation he could not fully comprehend. This book contributes importantly to historical understanding while also uncovering the dramatic story of one besieged family confronting unimaginable evil.
- Sales Rank: #1014024 in Books
- Published on: 2014-04-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.06" w x 5.50" l, 1.15 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
Review
“Millions perished in the Holocaust, and for those few who managed to find refuge in a world of closed doors, it took relentless effort and persistence in the face of great peril and untold frustrations. Charlotte Bonelli’s collection of correspondence, Exit Berlin, tells a moving story and is an important historical record of one family’s struggles to escape. I recommend it highly as a unique account of dedication and steadfastness against big odds in a trying time.”—W. Michael Blumenthal, Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin
(W. Michael Blumenthal)
“Exit Berlin is a powerful and important work that sheds significant light on what one person with determination and imagination could—and could not do—to save those she loved during the critical period of 1933–42.”—Michael Berenbaum, Professor of Jewish Studies, American Jewish University
(Michael Berenbaum)
“For a generation steeped in email, this heartrending collection of letters takes us to a more intimately communicative era—in which Jews, trapped in the nightmare of Hitler’s persecution, pleaded for help to escape to their cousins in America; and in which the latter tried desperately, generously, to respond. These letters, personalizing one family’s ordeal, eloquently relay a tale of both horrendous abuse and life-threatening bureaucratic barriers.”—Michael R. Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto and the author of The Holocaust in History.
(Michael R. Marrus)
“Always illuminating, full of moral tension and high drama, the letters that Luzie Hatch exchanged with her relations amount to an eyewitness account that allows us to penetrate the myths and statistics that sometimes obscure the hard facts of the Holocaust. Charlotte Bonelli, who assembled, selected and annotated the correspondence, has made an important contribution to both history and literature.”—Jonathan Kirsch, author of The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan (Jonathan Kirsch)
About the Author
Charlotte R. Bonelli is Director of the Archives of the American Jewish Committee, where the Luzie Hatch letter collection is preserved. She lives in New York City.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
The best history lesson I've had.
By Judi Manning
I had the pleasure of being acquainted with Luzie Hatch since she was a long time client of Stephen Solomon, the Managing Partner of our firm. Luzie was a charming, humble woman and quite a character. She frequently would visit our office with her omnipresent shopping cart in tow. Her constant response to anyone who asked how she was, was "I'm old and decrepit".
When Luzie passed away in 2001, my coworker, Lisa Brennan and I assisted Roger Blane with the formidable task of of settling her Estate. In my opinion, the most daunting task was cleaning out the studio apartment in Forest Hills where she lived for more than fifty years. The closets and cabinets were full of very old and interesting items. Among the typical contents one would expect to find, were the unexpected, such as newspaper ads from the 1950's and 60's, issues of "Look" magazine, and Pan Am travel bags, blankets and pillows, an homage to the days when air travel was glamorous. There were also vestiges of the frugality of her generation, so unlike my own, such as bakery string, used paper bags and condiments from take-out food.
Her apartment was hot and uncomfortable, cluttered with the personal effects of a woman, whom, I learned while reading "Exit Berlin", was more extraordinary than I imagined. Our goal was to clean out her apartment as quickly as possible so that we could surrender it to the landlord. Unbeknownst to any of us, amid the clutter, therein contained a goldmine of great historical significance and value. Priceless artifacts, that could've easily been lost forever, if not for the brilliance and benevolence of Roger Blane.
Roger was excited as he contacted the AJC about the letters he found. A few years later, he told me a book was being written based upon Luzie's letters. We joked about who would be cast in the role of Luzie in the movie version. Fast forward, years later, "Exit Berlin" is published. Roger offered the book to me on many occasions, which I consistently declined. I was busy working, teaching and taking classes. I didn't think I would find it interesting. I was wrong. This book is extraordinary. It is well-written and informative. Charlotte Bonelli has resurrected Luzie through her writing, effectively demonstrating Luzie's strong will and resourcefulness to secure safe passage out of Nazi Germany for her family; a formidable feat for anyone, but especially for a young woman, alone in a foreign land.
I recommend this book for the many facts of Nazism and the war which I have learned from reading it. However, the lesson of greater importance is that evil and insurmountable obstacles can be overcome with sheer determination, hard work and perserverance.
My gratitude to Charlotte Bonelli for writing this book and to Roger Blane for his foresight to donate Luzie's letters to enrich and educate the minds of our generation and the minds of future generations.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Wonderful and important book!
By Karen G-K
Aside from being beautifully written and intensely engaging, Exit Berlin is one of the most important books written about this horrible period of time in our history. This is for several reasons. There are few, if any, books written from the perspective of Jews in America during the Shoah (Holocaust). Through the hundreds of letters and replies to which she had access, author Charlotte Bonelli has shared an eyewitness account of one family's desperate attempts to escape the Nazi terror and one woman's desperate attempt, with the help of her cousins, to help these relatives, many of whom she did not even know.
The author's extensive research into US and world events to provide a context for those letters, and the additional information she gained from traveling to Europe to interview descendants of the letter-writers, provides the reader with facts about contemporary US history, the depression, immigration law, the US economy, conditions in some other countries to which Jews fled, and more. At the same time, the book is a study in the lost art of letter writing. In today's society we rely on instant communication, such as email and text messaging, and a delay in a response of more than 5 minutes causes the sender to wonder if the message is being ignored. The author beautifully shares with us a time in which sending a letter to a loved one sometimes meant an 8 week delay until you knew it was received; a time when postage was so expensive relative to income, the sender, desperate to be sure a response was not delayed because of the cost, might enclose the return postage. Set in the context of trying to flee for their very lives, such a wait must have been harrowing.
This book was beautifully written and easy to read. It was more than a collection of letters. It was a book that everyone should read in order to learn more about what these few people in the US knew was going on in Europe as the Holocaust was brewing and in full swing, and what these few people tried to do in their own small, but large, way. As I read, I could almost hear the words being spoken. Schindler's List told the story of one man trying to rescue as many people as he could from the inside. Here is a story of one woman, with the help of her cousins, trying to rescue them from the US. Steven Spielberg, take note!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A deeply moving story, both personal and poignant as well as broad and dramatic.
By Roger D. Launius
This is both a fine historical study and a strikingly intimate portrait of one individual’s efforts to help members of her family leave Germany before and during World War II. Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, prevailed upon her cousin, businessman Arnold Hatch, in the United States to help her leave her native Berlin. She escaped to New York City in 1938 just a week after the horrific Kristallnacht, gained employment at the American Jewish Committee where she worked as a translator, and relentlessly worked on her own to help her relatives depart Germany. She and Arnold Hatch worked together to help those they could, providing funding, lobbying immigration officials, and corresponding with desperate relatives. They had considerable, but not complete success. The result is an intimate, often positive and sometimes tragic story of a single family’s efforts to escape the Nazis.
Luzie Hatch remained with the American Jewish Committee from 1938, when she was only 27 years old, until her retirement. She never married, had no children, and lived throughout her life in the same small apartment in a New York neighborhood. She died only a few days after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, at the age of 89. After her death Charlotte R. Bonelli, archivist of the American Jewish Committee, was contacted by the executor of Luzie’s estate to ask if they wanted her papers. Among them was a remarkable set of correspondence between Luzie, Arnold, and other Hatch family members concerning efforts to “exit Berlin.”
Bonelli’s work here is one part historian, one part editor, and one part annotator of this correspondence. This book tells a compelling story of desperation, assistance, and not a little success in helping family members to various parts of the world. Some ended up in Americas, in other parts of Europe, in places like Shanghai, and in South America. Some did not make it out of Germany and some made it to France where they were interned in Vichy France.
The most interesting character in this account, from my perspective, was Arnold Hatch. He had been born and raised in the U.S., spoke no German, and had a less than close relationship to his relatives in Germany. He was concerned about their welfare, and helped where he could, but he had to balance that with his concern for his immediate family and his business interests. He responded to never-ending pleas for help—political, legal, monetary—as best he could. Neither he, nor anyone else fully understood at this time that the systematic extermination of the Jewish people would be the aim of Hitler’s Germany.
"Exit Berlin" presents a deeply moving story, both personal and poignant as well as broad and dramatic.
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