Alex's Wake (52 page)

de Gaulle, Charles,
171

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen,
149–150

Decree 937,
98

Degas, Edgar,
152

DeLaunay, David,
175–177

délit d'opinion
(felony of thought),
183

Delmenhorst,
75

Der Judenstaat
(Herzl),
152

Devil in France, The
(Feuchtwanger),
240
,
244

Devil's Island,
151

Dobrowolski, Antoni,
296

Dona nobis pacem
(Bach),
305

Drancy camp,
265
,
268
,
275–279
,
297

Dreyfus, Alfred,
151–153

Drouilhet, Jean-Claude and Monique,
10–11
,
173–178
,
191–198

Drumont, Edouard,
150–151

Duborg, Louis William Valentine,
177

Edison, Thomas,
24

Eichmann, Adolf,
291

Eilers-Dörfler, Germaid,
317

Eisenach,
283–285

Eisfeld, Theodore,
77

End of the Trail
(Fraser),
193

Ernst, Max,
244–245
,
266

Esterhazy, Ferdinand Walsin,
151

ethnic cleansing, Hitler's ethnic goals,
287

Eus,
235

euthanasia campaign, of National Socialists,
69

Evian Conference,
79

extermination camps,
190
,
277
,
291

FDR and the Jews
(Breitman and Lichtman),
127–128

felony of thought (
délit d'opinion
),
183

Feuchtwanger, Lion,
240
,
244

Final Solution,
290–291
,
293

Flossenbürg concentration camp,
287

Fondation du Camp Des Milles
,
265

food/water.
See
living conditions

Forster, E. M.,
24

France

     
anti-Semitism in,
150–153

     
contemporary anti-Semitism,
208

     
history of Jews in,
149–150

     
Jewish refugees and,
153–156

     
journey of Alex and Helmut to locations in,
165–169

     
St. Louis
refugees accepted by,
116–120

     
St. Louis
refugees disembark in,
134–138

     
St. Louis
refugees sail to,
122–124

     
Vichy government.
See
Vichy government

Franco, Franciso,
201

Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871,
150

Fraser, James Earle,
193

French Revolution,
149–150
,
179
,
191

Gartenstrasse,
61
,
64–65
,
70–73
,
310
,
313–316
,
319
,
322–324

gas chambers,
292–295
,
297

Gerda Philippsohn School,
29–30

Gestapo

     
Alex and Helmut applying for exit passport,
82

     
arrest and imprisonment of Bishop Théas,
191

     
arrest and internment of Antoni Dobrowolski,
296

     
death sentences at Auschwitz,
298

     
quality of life in Nazi Germany,
137

     
role in extracting refugees from internment camps in Unoccupied Zone,
182

     
rounding up Jews in Sachsenhagen,
28

     
seizure of Captain Buch of
St. Louis
,
83

     
surveillance and death of Carl von Ossietsky,
33

     
Wannsee Conference and,
290–291

Gineste, Marie-Rose,
190–191

Goebbels, Joseph,
56
,
78

Goldschmidt, Alex (grandfather)

     
anti-Jewish forces against,
49

     
arrest and imprisonment of,
57–60

     
attempted emigration to Cuba,
79–82

     
boarding
St. Louis
,
85–86

     
at Central Hospital of Contrexéville,
271–272

     
characteristics of,
34–35

     
early life of,
24–25

     
execution in gas chambers at Birkenau in 1942,
297

     
hardships of,
2–3

     
Haus der Mode
,
41

     
at Hotel International agricultural center,
160–162

     
internment at Agde,
202–207

     
internment at Camp des Milles,
245

     
internment at Drancy,
277

     
internment at Montauban,
188–189
,
192–194

     
internment at Rivesaltes,
223–229

     
letter from Camp du Martinet (1940),
166–169

     
letters from Camp des Milles,
247–248
,
251–253
,
256–257
,
261–262

     
Mantelhaus Goldschmidt
,
42–44

     
marriage, children, and home of,
36–41

     
memorial service in Oldenburg,
316–324

     
name on Wall of Names at Shoah Museum,
274

     
National Socialist German Workers' Party and,
44–45

     
plea for help,
269

     
release from prison,
79

     
sale of home forced by Nazis,
46

     
son's failure to save,
3–4

     
as victim of deportation policy,
264–265

Goldschmidt, Bertha (aunt),
37
,
49
,
319

Goldschmidt, Carl (uncle),
25

Goldschmidt, Eva (aunt),
40
,
49
,
51
,
65–66
,
319

Goldschmidt, Günther Ludwig.
See
Goldsmith, George Gunther (father)

Goldschmidt, Johanna (great-great-grandmother),
20–22

Goldschmidt, Klaus Helmut (uncle),
305
,
307

     
arrest of,
56–57

     
attempted emigration to Cuba,
80–82

     
author's visit to Helmut's school,
67–68

     
author's research on story of,
8–10

     
birth of,
40

     
boarding
St. Louis
,
85–86

     
departing for Martigny-les-Bains,
138

     
disembarking
St. Louis
in France,
119–120

     
dismissal of Jews from school,
58–59

     
early life and schooling of,
49–54

     
hardships of,
2–3

     
at Hotel International agricultural center,
160–162

     
internment at Agde,
202–204

     
internment at Auschwitz,
297–298

     
internment at Camp des Milles,
245–251

     
internment at Drancy camp,
277

     
internment at Montauban,
188–189
,
192–194

     
internment at Rivesaltes,
223–225
,
227–229

     
letters from Camp des Milles,
249
,
253–255
,
257–263

     
memorial service in Oldenburg,
316–324

     
name on Wall of Names at Shoah Museum,
274

     
Nazis' murder of,
4

     
plea for help,
269

Goldschmidt, Levi (great-great-grandfather),
19–22
,
28

Goldschmidt, Max (uncle),
25

Goldschmidt, Moses (great-grandfather),
22–26
,
28

Goldschmidt, Peter (brother),
4–5
,
8

Goldschmidt, Toni (grandmother),
36–41
,
59–60
,
166
,
309–310
,
319

Goldsmith, George Gunther (father)

     
affection for Saint-Rémy,
235

     
early life of,
37–40

     
emigration to United States,
1
,
3
,
226–227

     
employment in U.S.,
250
,
255–256
,
258

     
failure to save family from Nazis,
3–6

     
last years of,
6–8

     
letters from Camp des Milles to,
247–249
,
251–254
,
258–262

     
memorial service in Oldenburg and,
319

     
reaction to
The Inextinguishable Symphony
,
2

     
saying goodbye to father and brother on
St. Louis
,
86

     
scattering of ashes in Oldenburg,
315–316

     
securing affidavit for Alex and Helmut,
256

Goldsmith, Rosemary (mother)

     
affection for Saint-Rémy in Provence,
235

     
emigration to United States,
1
,
3–4
,
226–227

     
employment in U.S.,
250
,
255–256
,
258

     
letters from Camp des Milles to,
247–249
,
251–254
,
258–262

     
working for Pierre Boulez,
171

Good King René,
236

Göring, Hermann,
77–78

Goseling, Carolus,
115

Gottschalk, Max,
115

Gouges, Olympe de (feminist writer),
179–180

Gouin, Katell,
265–268
,
270

Gould, Glenn,
217

Graepel, Friedrich Otto,
38

Great Freedom (Grosse Freiheit),
87

Great War.
See
World War I

Grosse Freiheit (Great Freedom),
87