Don't wave goodbye : the children's flight from Nazi persecution to American freedom / edited by Philip K. Jason and Iris Posner.

Introduction / Judith Tydor Baumel -- Ch. 1. In short / Henry Schuster, Trudy Kirchhausen Turkel and Jack Steinberger -- Ch. 2. Trepidations / Manfred Steinfeld, Kurt Admon, Martin Birn and Henny Wenkart -- Ch. 3. Paths of escape / Ruth Safrin Finkelstein, Lea Wasserman Schwarz, Camilla Tidor Maas, Sarah Cudzillo, Michel Margosis, Richard Schifter, Henny Wenkart, Morris C. Troper, Albert Einstein and W. Howard Wriggins -- Ch. 4. Coming to America / Manfred Goldwein, Ilse Hamburger Phillips, Ruth Schlamme Schnitzer, Lea Wasserman Schwarz and Walter Kron -- Ch. 5. Transitions / Henry Birnbrey, Charles Juliusburg, Martin Birn, Bill Graham, Robert Greenfield, Gabrielle Kaufmann Koppell and Thea Kahn Lindauer -- Ch. 6. Becoming as American / Phyllis Finkel Mattson, Ruth Schlamme Schnitzer, Bill Graham, Robert Greenfield and Arnold Isaak -- Ch. 7. Full circle / Charles Juliusburg, Arnold Isaak, Benjamin Hirsch, Fern Schumer Chapman, Rose Marie Phillips Wagman and Phyllis Finkel Mattson -- Afterword / Richard Schifter.

"Sent across the ocean by their parents and taken in by foster parents and distant relatives, approximately 1,000 children, ranging in age from fourteen months to sixteen years, landed in the United States and out of Hitler's reach between 1934 and 1945. Seventy years after the first ship brought a handful of these children to American shores, the general public and many of the children themselves remain unaware of these rescues, and the fact that they were accomplished despite powerful forces in and outside the government that did not want them to occur. This is the first published account, told in the words of the children and their rescuers, to detail this unknown part of America's response to the Holocaust. It will challenge the belief that Americans did nothing to directly and actively save Holocaust victims." "Judith Tydor Baumel, Holocaust scholar and sister of two rescued children, provides an introduction explaining why, when, how, and where the rescues were carried out, who the heroes and heroines were, and which individuals and organizations placed almost insurmountable obstacles in their path. This account presents both recollections and experiences recorded at the time of the rescued children, their descendants, and their rescuers."--BOOK JACKET.