Alex's wake : a voyage of betrayal and a journey of remembrance

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Alex's wake : a voyage of betrayal and a journey of remembrance

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a voyage of betrayal and a journey of remembrance

Statement of responsibility

Martin Goldsmith

Title variation

• Voyage of betrayal and a journey of remembrance
• Alexs wake

Title variation remainder

a voyage of betrayal and a journey of remembrance

Creator

• Goldsmith, Martin, 1952-
• trueGoldsmith, Martin, 1952-

Author

• Goldsmith, Martin, 1952-

Subject

• trueGermany
• Germany -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 20th century
• Goldschmidt, Alex, 1879-1942
• Goldschmidt, Klaus Helmut, 1921-1942
• trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts -- World War II -- Holocaust
• trueHolocaust (1933-1945)
• Jewish refugees -- Germany -- Biography
• Jewish refugees -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
• Jews -- Germany -- Biography
• Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
• trueJews, German -- History -- 1933-1945
• trueRefugees, Jewish
• St. Louis (Ship)
• trueSt. Louis (Ship)
• trueTravel writing -- Modes of transportation | Boating
• trueTravel writing -- Retracing historic journeys
• trueUnited States
• trueJews, German
• trueCanada
• trueCuba

Genre

• trueHistory writing
• trueTravel writing
• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner SS St. Louis sailed away from Hamburg, Germany, bound for Havana, Cuba. On board were more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany. After being denied landing rights in Havana, the refugees were turned away by the United States and Canada and forced to sail back to Europe, where the gathering storm of the Holocaust awaited them. Two of those refugees were Alex Goldschmidt, a sixty-year-old veteran of World War I, and his seventeen-year-old son Klaus Helmut Goldschmidt. After their trans-Atlantic voyage, they landed in France. They would spend the next three years in one French camp after another before being shipped to Auschwitz in 1942. Sixty-nine years later, Martin Goldsmith, Alex's grandson and Helmut's nephew, retraced their sad journey. The book offers a compelling history of the voyage of the St. Louis, including testimony from those on board, a tale of espionage, and the brave resolve of Captain Gustav Schroeder. It also offers a harrowing chronicle of the vast network of camps in France, many of which were organized by the French themselves with little or no encouragement from the Germans

Tone

• trueHeartwrenching
• trueReflective

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

940

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult