Alex's Wake (55 page)

Roach, Amy (wife)

     
accompanying author on trip to Europe,
12–13

     
arrival in Paris,
272

     
attending memorial in Oldenburg,
312–313
,
316–324

     
George's last years and,
6–7

     
hosted by Drouilhet family in Montauban,
173–174
,
191–197

     
scattering of George's ashes,
64

     
side journey into Spain,
234

     
traveling with author in Poland,
285–286

     
visit to Auschwitz,
299–302

     
visit to Camp des Milles,
265–270

     
visit to Rivesaltes,
216–217
,
235

Roma (gypsies),
194
,
296

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
208

Roosevelt, President Franklin,
127–129

Rosen, Emmanuel,
119

Rothschild, Baron Robert de,
185

Rothschild bank,
150

Röver, Carl,
44–45

RSHA (Reich Security Office),
290

Saarbrücken, Square of Invisible Witnesses,
314–315

Sachsenhagen

     
author's visit to ancestral home,
11
,
28–29

     
author's visit to Jewish cemetery,
26–27
,
30–31

     
Gerda Philippsohn School,
29–30

     
Goldschmidt family history,
19–27

     
history of,
17–19

Sachsenhausen concentration camp,
57
,
287
,
319

safe-conduct fees,
18

Saint-André, André Jeanbon (role in design of French flag),
180

Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val,
195

Saint-Nectaire,
171

Saint-Rémy,
236–237

sanitation/hygiene.
See
living conditions

Sarkozy, Nicolas,
231

Sarrault, Albert,
116

Sarraut, Maurice,
188

Schaumburg-Lipp, Germany,
16

Schewe, Rita,
30

Schicksalslied
(Brahms),
89

Schiendick, Otto,
83–85
,
122

Schiller, Friedrich,
285

Schlicker, Theodor,
245

Schlossgarten,
7
,
36
,
40
,
50
,
57
,
61
,
64
,
67
,
71
,
315
,
316
,
319

Schroeder, Gustav,
82–84
,
130

Schumann, Dr. Horst,
289

Schwandner, Gerd,
317

Schwartz, Joseph,
263

Sellinger, Shelomo,
275
,
278

Sembdner, Erika,
28–30

Septfonds, prison for Jews in,
194–195

Shoah Museum, Wall of Names,
274

Shoemate, Jack,
10

Silent City, The (
La Cité de la Muette
) (Lods and Beaudouin),
275–276

Sobibor extermination camp,
277
,
291

“Songs of the Auvergne” (Cantaloube),
171

Soviet army, liberation of concentration camps,
295–296

Spanish Civil War,
194
,
201–202
,
218

Square of Invisible Witnesses,
314–315

SS Austria
,
76–77

SS Deutschland
,
77

St. Louis
, voyage of

     
Alex and Helmut's tragic story,
2–3

     
anti-Semitic wave in Germany and,
94–95

     
assigning refugees to countries,
119–120

     
author's research on refugees of,
11

     
Canada's failure to welcome,
112

     
captain and crew,
82–84

     
countries of asylum,
114–119

     
Declaration of Thanks to Troper,
120

     
Decree 937,
98

     
description of,
77

     
dropping off passengers,
120–122

     
failed negotiations in Havana,
98–104
,
106–107

     
forces opposed to Cuban immigration,
91–94

     
German Jews fleeing to Cuba,
78–82

     
memorial service in Oldenburg and,
319

     
orders to return to Germany,
108
,
112–113

     
passengers,
84–86
,
90–91
,
95–98

     
sympathy for plight of passengers,
103–106

     
trauma of rejection,
114

     
U.S. failure to welcome,
108–112

     
unresolved controversy over,
125–130

St. Nectarius,
171–172

St. Pauli Hafenstrasse,
86

St. Pauli Landungsbrücken,
75–76

St. Peter's Cathedral, Bremen,
75

St. Quentin,
143

Stalag
122
, imprisonment of Bishop Théas,
191

Starry Night
(van Gogh),
237

Statut des Juifs
(Statute on Jews),
186–187
,
202
,
218

Steche, Otto,
52

Steinbacher, Sybille,
291

Stolpersteine
(Stumble Stones),
313–314

Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich,
171

Stumble Stones (
Stolpersteine
),
313–314

Supinski, Piotr,
299–300

Switzerland,
14–15

synagogues,
55–56
,
150
,
159

Tamara Group,
308–309
,
311–312

Telemann, Georg Philip,
284

Théas, Pierre-Marie (bishop of Montauban),
190–191

Thuringian Forest,
284

Titanic
,
77

Totschek, Gerti,
308

Toulouse,
199

Tour de France, launching of,
152

Treblinka extermination camp,
291

Troper, Morris C.

     
Declaration of Thanks to,
120

     
editorial on success of,
125–126

     
finding asylum for
St. Louis
passengers,
114–118

     
honoring,
129–130

     
transferring refugees to countries,
119–124

Tsigane gypsies,
194
.
See also
gypsies

Twain, Mark,
1–2

U-Bahn (subway),
75

United States

     
anti-Semitism in,
111

     
immigration policy,
126–129
,
245

     
St. Louis
voyagers not given refuge in,
106
,
128

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
See
Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States

Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
208

Unoccupied Zone,
182
,
185
,
221–222
,
263–264

van Gogh, Vincent,
237

Vélodrome d'Hiver
(Winter Velodrome),
189–190
,
263
,
276

Veniard, Étienne de,
175

Verdun, battle of,
181

Vichy,
182–183

Vichy government

     
Camp des Milles as product of,
239–240

     
delivering foreign Jews to Nazis,
264

     
mass deportation of Jews to extermination camps,
190

     
policies of,
183–184

     
prisoners and enemies of,
307

Vietnam War,
192

Visigoths,
178

Voice of the North
newspaper,
134–140

vom Rath, Ernst,
56
,
58

Wall of Names, Shoah Museum,
274

Wannsee Conference,
291

Wartburg Castle,
284

Waxman, Franz,
244

Wehrmann, Anneliese,
65–67

Weiler, Moritz,
96–97

Weingarten, Dr. Hendrick,
16–17

Weiss, Louise,
116–117
,
155

Weizman, Chaim,
79

Whannel, Garry,
273

Wiesel, Elie,
265

Wilhelmina, Queen,
115

Will, C. A.,
41

Winter Velodrome.
See
Vélodrome d'Hiver

Witte, Jörge,
34
,
68

World War I

     
Alex during,
2

     
Alex joining army,
37

     
Martigny-les-Bains at outbreak of,
149

     
monuments in Montauban,
192

     
as “war to end all wars,”
181

World War II

     
German invasion of France,
180

     
internment of Germans in France,
167–169

     
monuments in Montauban,
192

     
terms of French armistice,
181–182

World Zionist Organization, founding of,
152

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

Zahedi, Farschid Ali,
33–34
,
49
,
62
,
316–324

Zola, Emile,
151
,
153

Zuccotti, Susan,
265

Zyklon-B,
293–294
,
295
.
See also
gas chambers