Promised New Zealand by Klier, Freya -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Front Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword People whose stories are told Map of Europe in the early 1930s PART I 1930–1938

1930

A New Zealander in Berlin The well-mannered Germans New Pomerania becomes New Britain

1933

‘Adolf Hitler has saved us’ From humanism to homeland and race New Zealand suffers want ‘Don’t buy from Jews!’

1934

Wool for Germany To stay or to go? About ‘Half Jews’ and ‘Eastern Jews’ In the land of Mussolini

1935

‘Spontaneous wrath of the people’ A New Zealand trading missionary Wedding in Jerusalem Labour’s day dawns

1936

Olympic peace Yes or no to immigrants? Degradation of doctors Heavenly Jerusalem ‘Aryanisation’ Leaving Vienna

1937

Anti-Semitism in ‘God’s Own Country?’ Touching up Germany’s image Travelling with Nazi party members Stopping places in Palestine and Europe

1938

A wedding in Vienna An Italian ‘race law’ New Zealand’s harshness Waiting for exile A Count from Saxony in New Zealand ‘Hans in Luck’

PART II 1939–1945

1939

The end of Czechoslovakia London – waiting room for overseas Kindertransports The doors close At the edge of the globe War breaks out

1940

The Treaty of Waitangi The German western offensive Winston Churchill’s hour ‘Enemy aliens’ The new farmers The last refugees Bar Mitzvah in Berlin

1941

Longing for closeness Suspicious Germans Fighting against the Nazis A Christchurch visit The Star of David

1942

Japanese expansionism The Wannsee Conference Interned for 999 days The Americans are coming A country pulls together Doughnuts for the SS

1943

Worlds apart The journey to Auschwitz Liver to Liverpool ‘Terror bombing’ Nylons and jeeps

1944

The course of the war Competitors ‘Total war’ A family’s stories ‘The Polish children’

1945

The ‘Death March’ Hopes of reunion Liberation ‘Zero hour’ ‘I am the only one who is still alive’ Hunger for life

PART III 1946–1948

1946

New beginnings The shadows of the Third Reich The desire to return British episodes Dealing with guilt

1947

Fresh encounters Displaced persons Setting out and saying goodbye Feelings during peacetime New Zealand’s Independence

1948

The last refugees from the Third Reich The British way of life The Berlin blockade Death in exile

Epilogue Acknowledgements Further Reading Index Back Cover