Alex's wake: a voyage of betrayal and a journey of remembrance
TitleAlex's wake: a voyage of betrayal and a journey of remembrance
Author
Call number940.5318092/0740
Object number09197
Place of publicationBoston, Massachusetts, United States
PublisherDa Capo Press
Year of publication
2014
Physical description350p
MaterialBook
ISBN9780306823220
Notes(electronic resource)
Description
This is the story of 2 parrallel journeys that took place 7 decades apart. In 1939 Alex and Helmut Doldschmidt in a desperate effort to evade the Holocaust set sail on the St Louis and were eventually returned to Paris, where they spent three years in various camps until their eventual murder in Auschwitz.
In 2011 Martin goldschmidt Alex's grandson described his detailed journey back to Europe and thus the story of the 2 journeys.