Down to the Wire

In 1815 the German Jew Isaac Meyer Goldschmidt opened the bank J. Goldschmidt Sohn in Hamburg, guaranteeing his family’s prosperity for more than a century. When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia in March of 1939, his grandchildren closed the bank and fled to England. But his twenty-six-year-old great-granddaughter, Gertrud, was denied the same visa as her parents […]