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She would always retain a great fondness for England from that first encounter.

The Quakers did not fail to help; Max wondered how it was that they understood a situation the rest of the world refused to acknowledge.

…he pondered his loss of wealth and standing, which eroded his ability to persuade people to listen to him, to save his children.

…he pondered his loss of wealth and standing, which eroded his ability to persuade people to listen to him, to save his children.

The synagogue was declared an eyesore because of its foreign architecture, by which they meant its Moorish style, its turrets, domes and horseshoe arches. Therefore, they said, they were legally entitled to demolish it.

The great mystery is how they manage to reconcile antisemitic propaganda with their daily experience of us, of our behaviour towards them and towards our patients.

They celebrated both Chanukkah and Christmas, with an actual Christmas tree – it was fun, and her mother said that they were modern people, after all.

Why did everything have to be so difficult, so complicated? And now on top of it all, there were the Nazis.

It was exhausting. Some people left Germany for good, but Father said they were giving in too easily, that this trouble would pass.

“Hitler will never succeed!” His father’s words coursed through Max’s mind; his father had been wrong, completely, utterly wrong! Hitler had won, and Max knew that it was a catastrophe, a disaster!”