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The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer & a Rescue from Nazi Germany
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The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer & a Rescue from Nazi Germany
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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.
| Author: Robert H. Gillette |
| Publisher: History Press Library Editions |
| Publication Date: Mar 18, 2011 |
| Number of Pages: 210 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 1540205533 |
| ISBN-13: 9781540205537 |
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