Title: Escape to Virginia
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.
Subjects: Jews, Persecutions, Emigration and immigration, German Jews, Hyde Park Farm (Burkeville, Va.), Biography, History, Jews, biography, Jews, persecutions, Germany, history, 1933-1945, Germany, emigration and immigration, United states, emigration and immigration, Virginia, biography, Hyde Farmlands, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Places: Germany, Burkeville, Nottoway County (Va.), Virginia, Burkeville (Va.)
People: William B. Thalhimer (1888-1969), Eva Jacobsohn Loew, Werner T. Angress
Time periods: 20th century, 1933-1945