Escape to Virginia
Subtitle: from Nazi Germany to Thalhimer's farm
By: Robert H. Gillette
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781626199125
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Jews; Persecutions; Emigration and immigration; German Jews; Hyde Park Farm (Burkeville, Va.); Biography; History
Other titles: From Nazi Germany to Thalhimer's farm
Description: "Jewish teenagers Eva and Töpper desperately searched for an escape from the stranglehold of 1930s Nazi Germany. They studied agriculture at the Gross Breesen Institute and hoped to secure visas to gain freedom from the tyranny around them. Richmond department store owner William B. Thalhimer created a safe haven on a rural Virginia farm where Eva and Töpper would find refuge"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-245) and index.