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03835aam a22004698i 4500 001 0F3D2E768DC211E596F637A7DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151118010023 008 150601s2015 paua b 001 0ceng 010 $a 2015021664 020 $a 0616180519 020 $a 9780616180518 035 $a (OCoLC)911004626 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d STA $d VMI $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-pa $a n-us-pa 050 00 $a F158.53 $b .H63 2015 082 00 $a 943/.5534 $2 23 100 1 $a Hoeber, Francis W. 245 10 $a Against time : $b letters from Nazi Germany, 1938-1939 / $c Francis W. Hoeber. 264 1 $a Philadelphia : $b American Philosophical Society Press, $c [2015] 300 $a vii, 328 pages : $b illustrations ; 26 cm. 490 0 $a Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge ; $v v. 105, pt. 1. 505 0 $a 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a Johannes HoÌber 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 containing the long letters they exchanged during the many months they were separated. In these letters, Elfriede describes the worsening situation in Germany and Johannes describes his flight from Europe and his excited entry into American life. [This book] collects 135 of those letters with an introduction, extensive notes, and an epilogue that sets the letters in the context of their time. The letters tell the story of a couple driven from their home by the Nazis and forced to make a new life in a new country. In these letters you will discover two fine, passionate, and very different writers. Johannes' letters are carefully organized and precise, self-conscious and at the same time full of colorful detail and rich accounts of people, places, and events that convey his deep interest in the new world he observed. Elfriede's letters sometimes seem slightly chaotic, but they convey a full sense of her strong feelings as she navigated daily life in a frighteningly transformed Germany. Her letters are often laced with a breezy wit, though the humor is often ironic and sometimes witheringly sarcastic. Together, the letters portray the intense relationship of a fascinating couple in a critical time. [This book] is an important historical resource that reads like a novel. -- Inside cover flap. 600 10 $a Hoeber, Johannes U., $d 1904-1977 $v Correspondence. 650 0 $a German Americans $z Philadelphia $z Philadelphia $v Biography. 600 10 $a Hoeber, Elfriede Fischer, $d 1904-1999 $v Correspondence. 650 0 $a Immigrants $z Philadelphia $z Philadelphia $v Biography. 651 0 $a Philadelphia (Pa.) $v Biography. 650 0 $a Political refugees $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a Germany $x History $x History $y 20th century. 630 00 $a Frankfurter Zeitung und Handelsblatt (Frankfurt am Main, Germany : Daily) $x Employees $v Biography. 651 0 $a DuÌsseldorf (Germany) $x Social conditions $y 20th century. 651 0 $a DuÌsseldorf (Germany) $v Biography. 700 1 $a Hoeber, Elfriede Fischer, $d 1904-1999. 700 1 $a Hoeber, Johannes U., $d 1904-1977. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20230718014635.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20151118010349.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0F3D2E768DC211E596F637A7DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search