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Author Gillette, Robert H.

Title The Virginia plan : William B. Thalhimer & a Rescue from Nazi Germany / Robert H. Gillette ; foreword by Elizabeth Thaljimer Smartt.

Publication Info. Charleston, SC : The History Press, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (206 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-201) and index.
Contents Hope -- Finding a farm: late winter, 1938 -- Welcomed news at Gross Breesen -- Bondy's first consular meeting -- Immigration granite walls -- The "Virginia plan" begins -- Visa considerations: round one -- State/labor deliberations: round two -- Germany in the fall of 1938 -- Kristallnacht: November 10, 1938 -- Waiting for immigration, 1939 -- "Root holds," 1939 -- Visa deliberations after Kristallnacht -- Journey to Hyde Farmlands, 1939-1940 -- Bleak news from Europe -- Hyde Farmlands expands, 1939-1940 -- Neighbors and helpers -- Nearby towns -- Encounters with a new racism -- A community in transition, 1940 -- 1941: a fateful year -- After Hyde Farmlands -- The war years and after -- A final accounting -- Misconceptions -- Shareholders for life.
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Summary During Hitler's rise to power in the 1930's, Richmond department store founder, William Thalhimer and his family traveled to Germany to visit relatives and business contacts. Thalhimer was deeply disturbed and increasingly alarmed as the anti-Semitism that he and his family witnessed escalated into the violence Brown Shirts and Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. Thalhimer became determined to aid Jews fleeing from Germany, and he eventually met a representative of Gross Breesen, a German-Jewish agricultural training institute. The mission of Gross Breesen, and eventually Thalhimer, was to train young Jews in agriculture in hopes that the expertise gained would ensure the students' successful emigration from Germany. Thalhimer purchased a farm, Hyde Farmlands, in Burkeville, Virginia to give the students a home in Virginia.
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Subject Hyde Farmlands.
Jews -- Virginia -- Burkeville -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- United States.
Jewish refugees -- Virginia -- Burkeville.
Jews, German -- Virginia -- Burkeville.
Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
Jewish youth -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Jüdisches Auswandererlehrgut Gross-Breesen.
Thalhimer family.
Bondy, Curt, 1894-1972.
Virginia -- Emigration and immigration.
Burkeville (Va.) -- Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9781614230984 (e-pub)
9781609491710 (print)
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