The Tragic Voyage of the St. Louis to Flee Nazi Germany-and a Grandsons Journey of Love and Remembrance
by
Martin Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Alex's Wake is a tale of two parallel journeys undertaken seven decades apart. In the spring of 1939, Alex and Helmut Goldschmidt were two of more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany aboard the St. Louis, the saddest ship afloat” (New York Times). Turned away from Cuba, the United States,...