Resources for Albert

Books

• Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany

  Koehn, Ilse, New York, 1977.

  Memoir of woman who, as a six year old girl, was defined as a Jew by the Nuremberg laws.
• *The Nuremberg Laws (Words that Changed History Series)

  Newman, Amy, San Diego, 1999

  Overview of the Nuremberg Laws and how they relate to the Holocaust.
• 48 Hours of Kristallnacht

  Bard, Mitchell G. , Guilford, CT, 2010.

  Retells survivors’ stories of Kristallnacht.
• Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

  Engle, Margarita, New York, 2009.

  Historical fiction about a Jewish boy who escapes to Cuba from Nazi Germany.
• Tropical Diaspora: The Jewish Experience in Cuba.

  Levine, Robert M., Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993.

  The experience of Cuban Jews from their immigration in the 1920s and 1930s to their flight from Cuba after the rise of Fidel Castro.
• Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust

  Ogilvie, Sarah A. and Miller, Scott, Madison, WI, 2006.

  The result of research into the lives of the passengers of the St. Louis.
• Hitler’s Exiles: Personal Stories of the Flight from Nazi Germany to America.

  Anderson, Mark K., ed. , New York: New York Press, 1998.

  A range of accounts from people who fled Germany and settled in America.
• Leo Baeck: Teacher of Theresienstadt

  Friedlander, Albert, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.

  Biography of one of the leading rabbis of pre-war German Jewry.

Websites

• The City of Berlin

  https://www.berlin.de/en/

  Explore this site to discover more about one of Germany’s largest cities
• Leo Baeck Institute

  http://www.lbi.org/

  Learn more about history and culture of German Jewry
• Rabbi Friedlander’s Legacy

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/

  Find Rabbi Friedlander’s obituary dated July 13, 2004

Films

• Camera of My Family

  19 minutes, 1979

  Depiction of Jewish family life in Germany immediately before the Holocaust.
• Outcast: Jewish Persecution in Nazi Germany 1933 – 1938

  40 minutes, 1997

  A history of the persecution of Jews in Germany under the Nazis, from the rise of Hitler through Kristallnacht, including testimony of those who were teenagers at the time.
• Double Crossing: The Story of the St. Louis

  29 minutes, 1992

  This film uses archival footage and survivor interviews to examine the doomed voyage of the St. Louis, a ship filled with European Jews seeking refuge from the Nazi regime.