Wir waren Glückskinder – trotz allem. Eine deutschjüdische Familiengeschichte

Once Tel Aviv and back: the story of an emigration

Thea Saalheimer was seventeen when she fled to Tel Aviv in early 1939 to escape Nazi terror, where she fell in love with Max Wolffsohn. Fifteen years later, the couple returned to Germany with their then seven-year-old son Michael. How did Thea and her family experience National Socialism and emigration to a country that was foreign to them in every way? Why did they move back to the land of the perpetrators? The historian and Middle East expert Michael Wolffsohn narrates the story of his mother and his childhood with engaging storytelling, rich narrative power, and many facts about National Socialism and the history of the Jews.