Table of Contents
Foreword. Those Who Knew Them Best Jacqueline Jacobsohn Miriam Angress 9
What Is Creative History? 11
Acknowledgements 13
Introduction 17
About Suffering, Courage and Hope 19
1 Nightmare 21
2 Werner's Interview 33
3 Dr. Curt Bondy and the Opening of Gross Breesen 39
4 Werner Arrives at Gross Breesen, 1936 43
5 Life at Gross Breesen 47
6 Eva's Expulsion, 1936 56
7 Eva at St. Paul's Girls' School, England, 1936 63
8 Summer Vacation, Germany, 1936 71
9 St. Paul's, 1936 1937 75
10 Witness to History 80
11 The Final Push, 1937 84
12 Eva at Gross Breesen, 1937-1938 87
13 "Inside Work" 95
14 Comfort in Routine 102
15 The Drought 104
16 Heartache and Growing Up 106
17 Töpper, the Spokesman 108
18 A Ray of Hope, 1938 111
19 The Postcard to Töpper 118
20 A Telephone Call to Eva 121
21 Eva's Escape 123
22 "Root Holds" at Hyde Farmlands 132
23 Töpper in Exile 145
24 Krystallnacht, November 9-10, 1938 148
25 Imprisoned in Buchenwald Concentration Camp 156
26 Panic and Response 161
27 Release from Buchenwald 164
28 Thalhimer's Victory! 167
29 Waiting for a Visa 170
30 Töpper's Journey to Hyde Farmlands 173
31 Töpper at Hyde Farmlands, 1939-1940 181
32 Major Construction and a Chicken Industry 189
33 Constant Worry 194
34 Hyde Farmlands Closes, 1941 197
35 "Tom," the War Years 204
36 Eva, the War Years 215
37 Bondy and Thalhimer, the War Years 224
38 "They Who Sow in Tears" 228
Notes 233
Bibliography 241
Index 247
About the Author 251
