When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor (1943)
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
Eisenhower.) To inform the family of his whereabouts and bypass censors, Eric referred to a Kokoschka painting of the region owned by the Warburgs. This exotic spot of remote snowy peaks, desert, camel caravans, and lemon trees formed an unlikely setting for a Passover Seder in April 1943. Sitting beneath a picture of Pétain, Eric and seventy other Jewish soldiers sat in a stifling schoolroom, passing a bottle of wine and singing off-key.
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