SOURCE: Isenberg, Noah. “Thanks for All the Memories.” Salmagundi 126–27, (spring–summer 2000): 285–97.

In the following excerpt, Isenberg praises My German Question for addressing the difficult and complex issues faced by Jews in Nazi Germany.

Between 1933 and 1945, as National Socialism ran its course in Germany, Austria, and beyond, approximately half a million German-speaking émigrés found their way out of the fascist storm that engulfed Europe. Some fled immediately after Hitler's stunning ascent to power, in January 1933, or after the ominous burning of the Reichstag a mere four weeks later. Others waited, hoping that the Third Reich would soon fail to live up to its thousand-year aspirations, and managed only to leave, if at all, at the last possible moment. Still others never secured the necessary documents to leave—due to inadequate resources to cover the increasingly expensive emigration fees, lack of influential contacts, or entrapment by the Nazi bureaucratic...