Nazis

In France Pierre takes him to meet a curé and the curé's housekeeper, Madame Quilleboeuf, who during the war had smuggled to safety the children of people picked up by the Gestapo , hiding each...

In the final episode of the main plot, she is informed by officialdom and in an unreadable letter in tiny German script from Theo Zeit that his two children are coming to England as refugees...

BR 's characters here have not sweetened in their advanced age. They cherish secrets from the past, or delight in outliving others less lucky, or operate an in-house blackmailing business, or commit gory suicide. The...

When asked to write his autobiography for publication, Dreyfus both fears and wishes to break his silence. He begins his story with his terribly ironical christening. His self-discovery runs parallel in the novel with the...

Crane describes RPJ 's family as middle-European-bourgeois, and as well-integrated, solid, assimilated, German-Jewish. Before they fled from Nazi persecution, he says, they were proudly German as well as very committed to their Jewish faith....

HA was a stateless person from 1933, when she fled from Nazi Germany, until 1951, when she acquired US citizenship.

EB 's flirtations after Randall Neale included Dr Harold Waller , Count Albrecht Bernstorff (a close friend who was probably killed by the Nazis during the Second World War) and Donald Strathcona .

After the end of her university career, BP travelled with the National Union of Students to Germany, where the Nazis were already in power, and found herself attracted by several young men who were...

PL 's father, Sydney Larkin , was treasurer of the city of Coventry at the time of Philip's birth. He was an important influence on his son's development. In politics he moved steadily to the...

She found several handsome young Germans attractive on her German visit, notably Nazi party members Friedbert Glück and Hanns Woischnick . Since she destroyed the relevant pages of her diary, the facts about these flirtations...

Adrian (1883-1948) was the youngest Stephen child. After Vanessa's marriage he lived with Virginia at 29 Fitzroy Square, then moved with her to 38 Brunswick Square. Like Thoby, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge ...

Sybille had a half-sister ten years older than herself, Maximiliana Henrietta, who was known as Jacko. She married first a middle-aged man, then a charming, disastrous young one who became in time a fairly high-placed...

HC 's mother, Eva Cixous (born Klein), a midwife, was born in Germany but left in 1933 for Oran after Hitler 's rise to power. Her family was Austro-German Jewish, and many members died in...

She later fell in love with her professor, Martin Heidegger , who was passionately attracted by her beauty and by her depth of thinking. This clandestine romance began in 1924, right after Arendt started...

In the course of her social duties EW would meet Baron de Rothschild , Sir Robert Ouvry , and the German financier and Westerm pro-Nazi organizer Baron von Heydebreck (known as Peter) .