arrival in Paris, 272
attending memorial in Oldenburg, 312–313, 316–324
George’s last years and, 6–7
hosted by Drouilhet family in Montauban, 173–174, 191–197
scattering of George’s ashes, 64
side journey into Spain, 234
traveling with author in Poland, 285–286
visit to Auschwitz, 299–302
visit to Camp des Milles, 265–270
visit to Rivesaltes, 216–217, 235
Roma (gypsies), 194, 296
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 208
Roosevelt, President Franklin, 127–129
Rosen, Emmanuel, 119
Rothschild, Baron Robert de, 185
Rothschild bank, 150
Röver, Carl, 44–45
RSHA (Reich Security Office), 290
Saarbrücken, Square of Invisible Witnesses, 314–315
Sachsenhagen
author’s visit to ancestral home, 11, 28–29
author’s visit to Jewish cemetery, 26–27, 30–31
Gerda Philippsohn School, 29–30
Goldschmidt family history, 19–27
history of, 17–19
Sachsenhausen concentration camp, 57, 287, 319
safe-conduct fees, 18
Saint-André, André Jeanbon (role in design of French flag), 180
Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, 195
Saint-Nectaire, 171
Saint-Rémy, 236–237
sanitation/hygiene. See living conditions
Sarkozy, Nicolas, 231
Sarrault, Albert, 116
Sarraut, Maurice, 188
Schaumburg-Lipp, Germany, 16
Schewe, Rita, 30
Schicksalslied (Brahms), 89
Schiendick, Otto, 83–85, 122
Schiller, Friedrich, 285
Schlicker, Theodor, 245
Schlossgarten, 7, 36, 40, 50, 57, 61, 64, 67, 71, 315, 316, 319
Schroeder, Gustav, 82–84, 130
Schumann, Dr. Horst, 289
Schwandner, Gerd, 317
Schwartz, Joseph, 263
Sellinger, Shelomo, 275, 278
Sembdner, Erika, 28–30
Septfonds, prison for Jews in, 194–195
Shoah Museum, Wall of Names, 274
Shoemate, Jack, 10
Silent City, The (La Cité de la Muette) (Lods and Beaudouin), 275–276
Sobibor extermination camp, 277, 291
“Songs of the Auvergne” (Cantaloube), 171
Soviet army, liberation of concentration camps, 295–296
Spanish Civil War, 194, 201–202, 218
Square of Invisible Witnesses, 314–315
SS Austria, 76–77
SS Deutschland, 77
St. Louis, voyage of
Alex and Helmut’s tragic story, 2–3
anti-Semitic wave in Germany and, 94–95
assigning refugees to countries, 119–120
author’s research on refugees of, 11
Canada’s failure to welcome, 112
captain and crew, 82–84
countries of asylum, 114–119
Declaration of Thanks to Troper, 120
Decree 937, 98
description of, 77
dropping off passengers, 120–122
failed negotiations in Havana, 98–104, 106–107
forces opposed to Cuban immigration, 91–94
German Jews fleeing to Cuba, 78–82
memorial service in Oldenburg and, 319
orders to return to Germany, 108, 112–113
passengers, 84–86, 90–91, 95–98
sympathy for plight of passengers, 103–106
trauma of rejection, 114
U.S. failure to welcome, 108–112
unresolved controversy over, 125–130
St. Nectarius, 171–172
St. Pauli Hafenstrasse, 86
St. Pauli Landungsbrücken, 75–76
St. Peter’s Cathedral, Bremen, 75
St. Quentin, 143
Stalag 122, imprisonment of Bishop Théas, 191
Starry Night (van Gogh), 237
Statut des Juifs (Statute on Jews), 186–187, 202, 218
Steche, Otto, 52
Steinbacher, Sybille, 291
Stolpersteine (Stumble Stones), 313–314
Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich, 171
Stumble Stones (Stolpersteine), 313–314
Supinski, Piotr, 299–300
Switzerland, 14–15
synagogues, 55–56, 150, 159
Tamara Group, 308–309, 311–312
Telemann, Georg Philip, 284
Théas, Pierre-Marie (bishop of Montauban), 190–191
Thuringian Forest, 284
Titanic, 77
Totschek, Gerti, 308
Toulouse, 199
Tour de France, launching of, 152
Treblinka extermination camp, 291
Troper, Morris C.
Declaration of Thanks to, 120
editorial on success of, 125–126
finding asylum for St. Louis passengers, 114–118
honoring, 129–130
transferring refugees to countries, 119–124
Tsigane gypsies, 194. See also gypsies
Twain, Mark, 1–2
U-Bahn (subway), 75
United States
anti-Semitism in, 111
immigration policy, 126–129, 245
St. Louis voyagers not given refuge in, 106, 128
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. See Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 208
Unoccupied Zone, 182, 185, 221–222, 263–264
van Gogh, Vincent, 237
Vélodrome d’Hiver (Winter Velodrome), 189–190, 263, 276
Veniard, Étienne de, 175
Verdun, battle of, 181
Vichy, 182–183
Vichy government
Camp des Milles as product of, 239–240
delivering foreign Jews to Nazis, 264
mass deportation of Jews to extermination camps, 190
policies of, 183–184
prisoners and enemies of, 307
Vietnam War, 192
Visigoths, 178
Voice of the North newspaper, 134–140
vom Rath, Ernst, 56, 58
Wall of Names, Shoah Museum, 274
Wannsee Conference, 291
Wartburg Castle, 284
Waxman, Franz, 244
Wehrmann, Anneliese, 65–67
Weiler, Moritz, 96–97
Weingarten, Dr. Hendrick, 16–17
Weiss, Louise, 116–117, 155
Weizman, Chaim, 79
Whannel, Garry, 273
Wiesel, Elie, 265
Wilhelmina, Queen, 115
Will, C. A., 41
Winter Velodrome. See Vélodrome d’Hiver
Witte, Jörge, 34, 68
World War I
Alex during, 2
Alex joining army, 37
Martigny-les-Bains at outbreak of, 149
monuments in Montauban, 192
as “war to end all wars,” 181
World War II
German invasion of France, 180
internment of Germans in France, 167–169
monuments in Montauban, 192
terms of French armistice, 181–182
World Zionist Organization, founding of, 152
Yad Vashem, Righteous Among the Nations designation, 130, 191
Zahedi, Farschid Ali, 33–34, 49, 62, 316–324
Zola, Emile, 151, 153
Zuccotti, Susan, 265
Zyklon-B, 293–294, 295. See also gas chambers
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