Genealogy Projects tagged with German Austrian exiled writers and intellectuals on the Geni Family Tree

French Riviera: Intellectual Exile In Paradise (1933-1945)

In the early 1930s, a great number of German and Austrian writers and intellectuals left their countries after the Nazi book burning campaign . A lot of them settled in Sanary-sur- Mer, at one point between 1933 and 1944, a then small French village in the South of France, 30 miles from Marseille. Among them the proportion of Jewish intellectuals was high.On arriving, many exiles stayed at the ...