Alex's Wake (54 page)

     
meeting with Madame Gerard Liliane,
163–164

     
ruins of Hotel International,
307

     
St. Louis
refugees disembarking in,
10–11

Master Race, twenty-five-point platform,
45–46

Maussane-les-Alpilles,
237

Mauthausen concentration camp,
287

medical research (experimentation), at Nazi concentration camps,
289

memorials.
See also
Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States

     
at Agde,
208–209

     
at Altes Gymnasium in Oldenburg,
316

     
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum,
299

     
at Camp des Milles,
265

     
at Drancy,
275

     
at family home in Oldenburg,
310–313

     
at Gerda Philippsohn school,
29

     
for Jews persecuted in Germany,
313–315

     
at Montauban,
192–194

     
at Rivesaltes,
230–231

Menage, Pieter Pieters,
132

Menage, Pieter Thomas,
132

Mengele, Josef,
289–290

Merton, Thomas,
216

Meyerbohlen, Carsten and Monica,
70–73
,
310–311
,
316–324

Meyerhof, Otto Fritz,
244

Milhaud, Darius,
181

Mitterrand, François,
190

Mona Lisa
(da Vinci),
180

Mont Sainte-Victoire,
237

Montauban

     
anti-Semitism in,
191–192

     
author's research on relatives in,
10

     
Drouilhet family as hosts in,
173–180

     
internment of Alex and Helmut,
188–189

     
memorial service honoring Alex and Helmut,
193–194

     
millennial flood in 1930,
187–188

     
war monuments in,
192–193

Montbrison,
171

Montes, Elodie,
214
,
217–218
,
229–232

monuments.
See
memorials

More Judaico
,
150

Munich Agreement,
202

Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation, in Montauban,
180
,
191

Musée Ingres, in Montauban,
180

National Center for the Gathering of Jews (
Centre National de Rassemblement de Israélites
),
221–222
,
264

National Jewish Daily
,
124–126

National Socialist German Workers' Party.
See
Nazi Party

National Youth Organization (NYO), Belgium,
120

Native Americans,
174–177
,
193–194

Nazi Party

     
American public opinion and,
111

     
Aryanization methods,
58–60

     
attempts to erase evidence of war crimes,
295–296

     
climate of fear created by,
65

     
desecration of Jewish cemeteries,
314

     
emergence of,
44–46
,
317

     
extermination statistics,
301

     
forcing resignation of Professor Moritz Weiler,
96–97

     
history of Goldschmidt family in Oldenburg and,
319

     
on meaning of
St. Louis
voyage,
130

     
medical research (experimentation) at concentration camps,
289

     
national violence and,
55–56
,
58

     
Nuremberg trials of Nazis,
294

     
policies, laws, edicts,
46–48
,
50–51
,
69
,
92
,
115
,
184
,
287
,
291–292
,
319

     
protecting art in the Louvre from,
180

     
regarding Jews as “criminal race,”
112

     
Wannsee Conference and,
290–291

Neidhardts, Roland and Hiltrud

     
attending memorial for Alex and Helmut in Oldenburg,
316–324

     
author's relationship with,
33–34

     
on hypocrisy of citizens of Oldenburg,
68–70

     
role in placing memorial plaque for Alex and Helmut,
310–315

     
scattering of George's ashes,
60–65

Neufchâteau,
166–169

Neutrality Acts during 1930s, U.S.,
127–128

Night of Broken Glass (
Kristallnacht
).
See
Kristallnacht
(Night of Broken Glass)

Nostradamus,
237

Nuremberg Laws,
47–48
,
184–185

Nuremberg trials, of Nazi war criminals,
294

NYO (National Youth Organization), Belgium,
120

Occitania

     
capital of,
199

     
history of,
178–179
,
191
,
198

     
Occitan language,
171

Occupied Zone,
182
,
185

“Ode to Joy” (Schiller),
285

Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants
(OSE, Agency for the Rescue of Children),
138

Oldenburg

     
Aryanization of Jewish enterprises,
60

     
author and wife's visit to,
32–35

     
as first state with elected Nazi leaders,
45–48
,
317

     
Goldschmidt family home,
37–44
,
49

     
history of,
35–36

     
Jewish history in,
279–280

     
memorial for Alex and Helmut,
310–314
,
316–324

     
national violence,
55–56

     
prisoners herded to Sachsenhausen,
57

     
scattering George's ashes in,
315–316

Oldenburg, Friedrich August von,
36

Oldenburger Pferde
,
36

Ordre des Médecins
, anti-Semitism of Vichy government,
185

Osage tribe,
174–178
,
193–194
,
197

Ossietzky, Carl von,
32–33

Oswiecim,
282–283
,
285–287
,
299
.
See also
Auschwitz

Paris

     
assassination of German Embassy official,
56
,
58

     
author and wife's visit to,
272–274

     
Central Refugee Committee,
116–117
,
155–156

     
as cultural center (1920s),
153

     
invasion and occupation by German army,
180–182

     
James Joyce fleeing,
14

     
Jeudi noir
(Black Thursday),
263

     
Osage delegation visiting,
175–176

     
Rothschild bank,
150

     
Vélodrome d'Hiver
(Winter Velodrome) detention center,
189–190

Pawhuska, Oklahoma,
178
,
197

Pearl Harbor,
290

People of the Middle Waters.
See
Osage tribe

Perpignan,
213–214

Peschanski, Denis,
230–231

Pétain, Henri-Philippe,
180–184
,
189
,
195

Peyrouton, Marcel,
185

Pferdehändler
profession,
21–22

Philip the Fair, King,
179

Philippsohn, August (great-grandmother),
24–25

Philippsohn, Gerda,
29

Philips, Deborah,
273
,
311
,
315
,
317

“phony war,”
180

Pied Piper,
20

pilgrimage, author's trip as,
308

Pitchipoi myth,
276–278

Place des Martyrs
, in Montauban,
180
,
191

Plague, The
(Camus),
198

poison gas.
See
gas chambers

Poland,
Lebensraum
policy and,
287

Port Barcarès,
213

Poult, Adolphe,
187
,
191
,
307

Poult, Emile,
187–188
,
189

Prades,
215
,
216–217

Provence,
235–237

Rameau, Jean Phillippe,
170

Rassenkunde
,
52

Ravensbrück concentration camp,
287

Reeperbahn,
86–87

Reich Citizenship Law,
48

Reich Security Office (RSHA),
290

Reitlinger, Gerald,
293

Relatives Rule, U.S. immigration policy and,
246–247

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste,
152

Resistance

     
Jean-Claude Drouilhet on,
197–198

     
monument to local partisans in Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val,
194–195

     
public hanging in Montauban,
180

     
role of Marie-Rose Gineste in,
191

Resolution
111
,
129

Reynaud, Paul,
180–181
,
183–184

Rhakotis
,
122–123
,
134–138

Ricciotti, Rudy,
230–231

Riga,
319

Righteous Among the Nations designation, Yad Vashem,
130
,
191

“Rite of Spring” (Stravinsky),
171

River Marne,
144

Rivesaltes concentration camp

     
author and wife's visit to,
214–216
,
229–233
,
235

     
author's research on relatives in,
8–12

     
bleakness of,
307

     
history of,
221–223

     
internment of Alex and Helmut,
223–224

     
living conditions,
218–221

     
policy enforcing delivery of foreign Jews to Nazis,
264