Walter's welcome : the intimate story of a German-Jewish family's flight from the Nazis to Peru  Walter’s Welcome: The Intimate Story of a German-Jewish Family’s Flight From the Nazis to Peru 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2608942B

  Author(s)

  Echenberg, Eva Neisser

  City

  New York 

  Country

  United States 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9781510724761 

  Date of Publication

  2018 

  Publisher

  Skyhorse Publishing  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  238 

  Subject

  Biography / Memoirs

  Subject

  Ethnic Studies / Ethnology

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Jewish Studies

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Echenberg, Eva Neisser

  Publisher

  Skyhorse Publishing  

• Description

  Walter’s Welcome: The Intimate Story of a German-Jewish Family’s Flight From the Nazis to Peru Walter's Welcome is the story of Walter Neisser and the more than fifty members of his family he helped to escape Nazi Germany. The story is told through the letters of the Neisser [and Nothmann] family, which have been meticulously translated and arranged by Walter's niece, Eva, who also provides moving historical contextualization and commentary. After fleeing Germany, the Neissers resettled in Peru. However, their flight was neither easy nor seamless. [Walter took odd jobs until he founded and grew a large electrical appliance business. He also would become socially active in the Lima community]. Walter worked tirelessly to provide the resources and guidance necessary for the many members of the family to escape, but communications to Europe were intermittent and travel off the continent became increasingly impossible with each passing day, requiring extraordinary will and coordination to contact the correct officials and receive the necessary documentation. The family's letters reveal the toll these efforts put on them and the challenges of waiting and surviving in a foreign land as they tried to hold together.