Book Discussion: The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between

Historian Michael Dobbs presents a chilling true story a few Jewish families to find refuge in another land, away from their homes and the lives they had created in a small village at the edge of the Black Forest.  These people were upstanding citizens war heroes, and beloved business owners, who found themselves suddenly facing a chill from friends, colleagues and neighbors as life under the Nazis changed their world.  The decision to leave everything and flee to an unknown country was only the beginning of the trauma.  Dobbs chronicles the challenges faced by this terrified group of people, where a piece of paper meant the difference between life and death. 

This discussion is part of the supporting programming for "Americans and the Holocaust," a traveling exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in conjunction with the American Library Association.