The Escapers
A Journey out of Occupied France—A Daughter’s Memoir
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Once I began to write, the words, the memories, the tears, the fears, the tastes, the sounds, all of it, flooded back, overwhelming me. I couldn't stop writing, The more I wrote, the more I learned of my father's activities, the more I wondered what was it about him that made it possible for him to escape the Holocaust when so many millions of others did not. What had made him different? What had shaped him, given him the courage, the bravura, the chutzpah, and most important of all, the foresight, the vision and the wisdom, to save himself, my mother and me from the Germans and earlier, to defy the British and risk his own life to smuggle hundreds of Jews into Eretz Israel under the noses of the hated occupiers of The Land? And even earlier than that, when he lived in Berlin in the early 1920's, to understand that Hitler would soon become the greatest enemy the Jews had ever known? I had to find out.
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Once I began to write, the words, the memories, the tears, the fears, the tastes, the sounds, all of it flooded back, overwhelming me. I couldn’t stop writing. The more I wrote, the more I learned of my father’s activities, the more I wondered what it was about him that made it possible for him to escape the Holocaust when so many millions of others could not. What had made him different? What had shaped him, given him the courage, the bravura, the chutzpah, and most important of all, the foresight, the vision and the wisdom to save himself, my mother, and me from the Germans and, earlier, to defy the British and risk his own life to smuggle hundreds of Jews into Eretz Yisrael under the noses of the hated occupiers of the Land? And even earlier than that, when he lived in Berlin in the early 1920s, to understand that Hitler would soon become the greatest enemy the Jews, and the entire world, had ever known? I had to find out.
About the Author
Caren B. Rubio was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and immigrated with her parents to the United States, eventually becoming a naturalized US citizen. She graduated from New York University and held a variety of positions, including copywriter and cable television host. She died in New Jersey in September of 2012.