The House at Schumannstrasse 7 A Memoir by Edith Netter

Twice, Alice Rothschild Netter sought safety and asylum in another country: once because she was a German in England during WWI, once because she was a Jew in Germany when the Nazis took power. Born and raised in Germany, nothing in Alice’s childhood foretold what she would experience later. Her family was affluent. They were a respected part of the community. She was educated and had opportunities for travel. She and her husband were in London in 1915, when he was arrested and imprisoned because he was German. In Germany, she waited four years for his release so they could restart their lives together. Three children, a treasured house, and a successful business—the family prospered for years, until the Holocaust. Then, they fled Germany any way they could. Alice took the “sealed train,” a short-lived, never-before-described in the literature service to Lisbon. Alice’s life story, told in her voice, is uniquely personal and accessible. Readers young and old, informed or uninformed about the Holocaust, will be interested in and benefit from reading this true story about the author’s grandmother.