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03269aam a2200505Ii 4500 001 93794D68E17611E3B4ECD896DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20230701010528 008 130729s2014 mauab b 001 0ceng d 020 $a 0306823225 (hardcover) 020 $a 9780306823220 (hardcover) : 035 $a (OCoLC)854612675 040 $a YDXCP $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCO $d CGP $d I3U $d IEU $d ABG $d SILO 043 $a e-gw--- 050 4 $a DS135.F89 $b G65 2014 082 04 $a 940.5318142 $2 23 100 1 $a Goldsmith, Martin, $d 1952- $e author. 245 10 $a Alex's wake : $b a voyage of betrayal and a journey of remembrance / $c Martin Goldsmith. 250 $a First Da Capo Press edition. 264 1 $a Boston, MA : $b Da CapoPress, a member of the Perseus Books Group, $c 2014. 300 $a vii, 344 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-332) and index. 505 0 $a Setting forth -- Sachsenhagen -- Oldenburg -- Hamburg -- The voyage of the St. Louis -- Boulogne-sur-Mer -- Martigny-les-Bains -- Montauban -- Agde -- Rivesaltes -- Les Milles -- Drancy -- Auschwitz -- Coming home. 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Goldschmidt, Alex, $d 1879-1942. 600 10 $a Goldschmidt, Klaus Helmut, $d 1921-1942. 610 20 $a St. Louis (Ship) 650 0 $a Jews $z Germany $x History $y 1933-1945. 650 0 $a Jews $z Germany $v Biography. 650 0 $a Jewish refugees $z Germany $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Jewish refugees $z Germany $v Biography. 651 0 $a Germany $x History $x History $y 20th century. 941 $a 10 952 $l FGPD194 $d 20240515011127.0 952 $l SMPE094 $d 20240104013153.0 952 $l UBPC631 $d 20231228011810.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331012438.0 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20220728014548.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518015734.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722042834.0 952 $l MMPE553 $d 20180719042209.0 952 $l WPPB215 $d 20170321011001.0 952 $l EJPD605 $d 20141105182240.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=93794D68E17611E3B4ECD896DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IW9Initiate Another SILO Locator Search