“After the Nazis confiscated our business in 1937, my husband and I fled to British-occupied Kenya. When the war began, the British arrested German men as enemy aliens. Facing deportation, we found menial jobs at a hotel and stayed in Kenya for the rest of the war.” Read about two Holocaust survivors, German Jewish newlyweds sent to America by their parents to have children to “save our people,” in One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.
British internment camp for German refugees in Kenya
Berlin, 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn on the eve of the Nazi slaughter