The Lifeline: Salomon Grumbach and the Quest for Safety

by United States Air Force Academy and Meredith Scott

During the first months of World War II, nearly one thousand refugees and asylum seekers held in French internment camps sought the help of one man: Salomon Grumbach. Meredith Scott's The Lifeline is a ground-breaking study of Grumbach, an Alsatian Jew, journalist, and socialist politician who became one of Europe's most important interwar refugee advocates. Focusing on his remarkable life in Germany and France, it uncovers the identities that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004514392
• ISBN13: 9789004514393
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 196 Pages