Odyssey of a child survivor: from Latvia through the camps to the United States
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adam_text | CONTENTS Foreword by Wendy Lower 1 Introduction by Carol Rittner 7 Preface by George Schwab 13 Acknowledgment by George Schwab 15 A Charmed Childhood—The 1930s 17 II. End of the Idyll—Soviet Occupation 30 I. III. War 40 IV. Street Boy 66 V. Street Boy Tamed VI. 82 Intellectual Other Columbia Adventures 150 VII. Road to the Beginning of a Career—Teaching 166 VIII. Disaster at Columbia at Home 175 IX. Marriage 185 X. Fate of the Rejected Ph.D. Dissertation on Carl Schmitt 192 XI. Birth of a Family and Victory at Columbia XII. Tortuous Academic Road but Wonderful Family Experiences XIII. National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP)—Highlights XIV. 195 Returning to Latvia, Tragedy at Home, Renewal 203 220 244 Selected Bibliography 258 Index 261
INDEX Note: Italicized page numbers indicate captioned photographs. Abelit, Mr. (Libau), 54 academic career of GDS 33,34-35,103 Ackermann, Samjon (Joni, at Columbia University, see cousin), 27,33, 51,104 Adams, Gerry, 132,133, 227-31 Adelson, Howard L., 204-5,209, Columbia University at CUNY, see City University of New York (CUNY) 242nl,256-57n3 Adenauer, Konrad, 160 Advocate, Barbara, 256n2 Graduate Center and the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. Africa GDS sabbatical semester in at City College, see City College South Africa, 206,211-14 NCAFP Africa project, 237 see National Committee on Ahimark, Per, 142,244-49 American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) Ahtisaari, Martti, 139 Carl Schmitt in. see Schmitt, Aivazovski, Ivan, 34 Alder, David (cousin), 73,188-89 Alder, Manya Wainstein (cousin), Carl Ackermann, Gusti Jacobson 19,73,103,188-89,256- (aunt), 27,34-35,103,104 Ackermann, Ljuba (Lully, cousin), 57n3 Alder, Mascha (second cousin), 27, 33,103,104 Ackermann, Oskar (uncle), 27, 30, 188-89 261
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Alderdice, John, 227,228 Nazi occupation of Libau/ Aleichem, Sholom, 251,253-54 Alliance Française, Paris, 111, 158, Liepaja and, 45,47,48-50 Nuremberg Laws (1935), 160 Carl Schmitt and, 151-52, 161-65 Alperovitch, Dmitri, 243nl0 al-Qaeda, 237 154-55,157,160,175,177, 192,220-21 Alroy, Gil Carl, 242n2 Arab Spring (2010), 237 Arendt, Hannah, 152,153 Arias, Inocencio E, 243n6 Altmann, Riidiger, 158 Ambrose, Stephen, 207 Amendola, Giuseppe, 242n2, Armel, Rosa Vovsi, 184 Arndt, Hans-Joachim, 111, 158, 243n6,243nl0 American Federation ofJews from Central Europe, 224 163,165 Aron, Raymond, 163 American Foreign Policy Interests Arons, Michael, 209 Assar, Nassir, 243n7 Association for New Americans, (magazine), 237,238 American Foreign Policy Newsletter, 222-23,242n2, 85 Association for Relations Across 246-47 American Historical Review, The, 192 the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), 231-32 Athen (ship), 65 Atlantic Beach Club (Long Island, American Joint Distribution Committee (Joint), 71-75, 79-80, 85 New York), 216-17 Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland Amery, Jean, 12n3 Angier Biddle Duke Lecture GDS trip to (1988), 14, (NCAFP), 234,240 anti-Semitism, 2-5 224-25,244-45 Schwab family relatives and, GDS first experience with, 29 of GDS friends, 163 Jesus and, 14 155 survivors of, 10-11,207, 224-25 Award for Excellence in Cultural in Latvia, 1,17,29,246-47, 253 Diplomacy (NCAFP), 140, 241-42 262
INDEX Berlin, Germany Babst, Natascha, 33 Backer, Sam, 151 Ban, Vladimir, 248,249 GDS relatives in, 23,70, 76-77,91,702,168-69,187 GDS reunites with mother in (1946), 4,73-79,706 Grunewald documentation Banuazizi, Ali, 243n7 Baran, Zeyno, 243n9 Bar Ilian, David, 242nl Barion, Hans, 158 center, 155 Hitler s office in, 76-77 Berlin, Isaiah, 155 bar mitzvah GDS and, 61, 88 Bernadotte, Folke, 87 Bernheim, Rachel Oestreicher, of GDS sons, 13, /27,219, 250 Barnard, Christiaan, 214 256-57n3 Betar (Brit Trumpeldor), 86-87 Barnett, A. Doak, 242n5 Barros, James (Jim), 151,172, Bettelheim, Bruno, 242nl Beutler, Lea, 47-48 Bialkin, Kenneth J., 137,243n6 Biden, Joseph R., Jr., 141 173-74,195 Barry, Bill, 228 Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 138,167 BBC, 46-47, 50 Bildner, Albert, 243n6 Binkovskis, Sergejs, 147 Bismarck, Otto von, 198 blacks/Africans City College Open Behemoth (Neumann), 153 Behind the Barbed Wire (Chabrier), 14,217-18 Behr, Marion, 256n2 Bellow, Saul, 242nl Admissions policy and, 203 discrimination in Israel and, Bendersky, Joseph W., 192,193 Bendrehmer, Selma, 71,76 95 discrimination in the U.S. Benjamin, Walter, 164 and, 96 Benois, Alexander, 166-67 Bergen-Belsen, Germany, 75, 80 Berger, Joseph, 205 in South African ghettos, 213 Blake, Robert, 243n9 Blank, Stephan, 243n9 Berkman, Dunia Rosovsky, 93-94 Blankenese Jewish childrens home (Hamburg, Germany), 71-76, Berkman, Nathan, 93-94 Berkman, Oka, 93-94 86 263
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR in Liban, 25 Blinken, Donald, 243n6 Blumberg, Bella, 47-48,255 Böckenförde, Ernst-Wolfgang, at wedding of GDS, 117,187 Bruskin, Eve (second cousin), 83, 158,160 Bogdanova, Rita Blumberg, 255 Bohne von Вoyens, Renate, 243n6 167 Bruskin, Nuta Wainstein (cousin), Bojarski, Ette, 103 103,167,188,256-57n3 in Connecticut, 83 Boucher, Richard, 243n9 Boulanger, George, 77 Braham, Randolph, 207 GDS letters to, 73 illness of Klara Schwab and, 184 Bremerhafen (Nazi ship), 56-58 Brennan, Donald D., 242nl in Libau, 25 at wedding of GDS, 117,187 Bruskin, Sam (second cousin), 83, Bresler, Szlamek, 71 Breznitz, Shlomo, 228 167 Bryza, Matthew, 243n9 Bub, Anna, 47 Brickey, John, 243nl0 Brik, Miss (governess in Eibau), 18,20,27,34 Bubi, Bubinka, see Schwab, Bernhard Boris (Bubi, brother) British Relief Unit, 71-72 Brod, Bronia, 255 Brod, Ivar, 246,255 Bukingolts, Sol N., 256-57n3 Burggraben death march, 62, 63 Bronx High School of Science, New York City, 216 Burghardt, Raymond, 242n5 Brown, Bernard E., 218,234-35, 242n2,243n6 Burns, R. Nicholas, 235 Brown, Eleanor, 218 Cakste elementary school, Libau, Browning, Christopher, 6n3 Browning School, New York City, 215-16 Latvia, 28-29, 33-34,36 Campbell, Kurt M., 242n5 CapArcona (ship), 65 Bruskin, Elie (cousin), 167,188 capos/Kapos, 52, 59,60,66,67 Carl Schmitt’s Critique of in Connecticut, 83 GDS letters to, 73 illness of Klara Schwab and, 184 Liberalism (McCormick), 193 Carnegie Reporter, 233 Carter, Jimmy, 10-11,12n6 264
INDEX “cousin,” 20,22 Chill, Emanuel, 204 China (People s Republic of Century Club (Purchase, New York), 172,200-201 Chabrier, Gwendolyn (Gwennie), 14,217-20 Challenge ofthe Exception, The China) Xavier Kinginthai Doshiang (GDS uncle) as envoy to, 22, (Schwab), 175-80,192-93 Chandler, Alice, 210 26,198 Forum on Asia Pacific Chao, Solan, 201 Security (FAPS) project Chaliapin, Feodor, 21-22,188 (NCAFP), 5,225,231-33 Chocolatesfor Breakfast (Moore), 164 Charap, Daniel, 243n9 Charney, Anna, 256-57n3 Charney, Samuel, 256-57n3 Chelkowski, Peter, 243n7 Chen, Shui-Bian, 232 Churbn Lettland (Kaufmann), 77, 245 Churchill, Winston, 153 Chernys, Steven, 243n6,243n9 childhood in Libau/Liepaja, City College comparison with Columbia Latvia, 17-29,31-34,35-39, University, 150-51 Henry Friedlander grievance proceedings, 206-8, 102,103 café life, 19-26, 33, 35 childhood war games and, 32, 40,44,48 custom clothing and shoes, 219nnl-2 GDS attendance and 22,33 education, 28-29,33-34,36 graduation from, 91-93, 96 GDS takes a semester family holidays in Riga, sabbatical in South Africa, 206,211-14 Latvia, 18-19,25,26-28, 30-31,33,34-35,203 family home, 17, 26,34, 36-37,247-48,256 Schwab household staff, GDS teaches M.A. course, 17-19,20,22-24,27,34,36 stamp collecting, 37,45,112 GDS teaching position in 206 GDS teaches remedial course, 205-6 History Department, 174, 183,188,196,203-10 Shirley Temple, as GDS 265
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR investigation of History George D. Schwab Fellowship Department, 208-9 Marshak administration, in American Foreign Policy, 241 Clark, Wesley K., 234 204-10,211 Open Admissions policy, 203-8 Clinton, Bill, 140,228,231 Cohen, Herman J., 235,237 College Entrance Examination Board, The, 197 politicization of History Department, 204-10,211 Collomb, Bertrand, 256 as the Poor Man’s Harvard, 203,211 City University of New York Collomb, Stephanie, 251,256 Columbia University comparison with City (CUNY) College, 150-51 Faculty Club, 173-74 City College, see City College Graduate Center, see City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center GDS accepted to Ph.D. program, 152-53 GDS completes first oral Hunter College, 197 City University of New York examination for Ph.D., 167, (CUNY) Graduate Center 173 GDS completes Ph.D. GDS applies to History Department, 206 GDS as director of program, 5,200-201 GDS dissertation on Carl Conference on History and Schmitt, 4,153-61,175-80, Politics, 223 192-93. see also Schmitt, Carl GDS meets French language GDS becomes Library Associate of Mina Rees Library (1999), 251-52 requirement at Alliance Française, Paris, 111, 158, GDS delivers lecture on Carl Schmitt, 206 161-65 GDS receives M.A. from, 110, GDS professorship, 5,210 151-52 GDS tutorial, 194 George D. Schwab Family GDS receives scholarship to, 96 GDS second dissertation Fund, Mina Rees Library, 252 266
INDEX Dawidowicz, Lucy, 207 Dayez, Georges and defense, 181,183-84, 195-98,200-201 GDS teaches Contemporary Civilization course, 173-74 collectors of works, 182-83, 197,218,256 GDS first exposure to works Clarence Schwab graduates from, 216 of, 164 meets Eleonora Schwab, 196 Claude Schwab graduates from, 216 Commission on the Holocaust, meets Schwab triplets, 217 New York City cocktail reception for, 201 10-11 communism, GDS antipathy Dean, Martin, 6n2,6n5 Deane, Herbert as GDS political science toward, 37-38, 85, 89-90, 161-62,221-22 adviser, 151-55,157,195-96 in GDS Carl Schmitt dissertation defense, 175-76, Concept ofthe Political, The (Schmitt), 193 Connorton, John V., Jr., 242n4, 243nl0 Constitutional Theory (Schmitt), 178-80 DeHooge, Linda, 226 Delury, John, 241 177 Cooley, Alexander, 243n9 Deng Xiaoping, 225 Denise (companion of GDS), Cornell Medical Center, 213 Cosa, Ralph, 242n5 Council on Foreign Relations, 162-63,165 Dennis, Myna Galgut, 214 Dergham, Raghida, 243n8 221,223 crematoria, 58, 63, 225 Cumming, Robert, 175-76 Destruction ofthe European Jews, The (Hilberg), 7-8 détente, 5,221-22,233-3 5 Deutsch, Howard, 118,211 Deutsch, Jessica Reichman, 118, Curtis, Michael, 242n2,243n6 cyber-security, 239 211,212 Daily Telegraph, 228 Daudiss, I., 246 Dhiagilev, Sergei, 166 DiCarlo, Rosemary, 242 Davis, Lisa, 125 Dictatorship (Schmitt), 176 Dankers, General, 68 267
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR home (Hamburg, Germany), Dietrich, Fritz, 49 Distel, Anne Dayez, 196,217,256 71-76, 86 at Cakste elementary school Dorbian, Hirsh, 71 Dorbian, Mrs., 73 (Libau, Latvia), 28-29, 33-34, 36 Doshiang, Hermine Jacobson Kinginthai (aunt), see Scher, at City College (New York Hermine Jacobson Kinginthai Doshiang (aunt) City), 91-93,96 at Columbia University (New York City), see Columbia Doshiang, Xavier Kinginthai (Dr. King Li, uncle) in Berlin, 70,76 University early struggles with, 28-29, 33-34,36,49-50,72,78,179 death (1935), 23,91 as envoy to Germany, 22,26, 198 Downing Street Declaration in Israel, 92-95,109 at New Utrecht High School (Brooklyn, New York), (1993), 227-30 Drath, Viola Herms, 243n6 84-91,707 at Schlachtensee DP camp Duke, Angier Biddle, 133,227, 228,234,240 (Germany), 77-79 sexual education, 21, 69-70 Duncker Humblot, 180 Duverger, Maurice, 162 Dwork, Deborah, 6nl Sorbonne French civilization course (Paris), 162 see also Zionist ideology/ Jewish state Eban, Abba, 136 Eiges, Dr. and Mrs. Anuschka, 93 Eiges, Gideon, 93 Eban, Suzy, 256n2 Ebenstein, William, 151,152 Edelstein, Julius, 210 education of GDS Eiges, Irit, 93 Eikenberry, Karl W, 242n5 Eisler, Fritz, 154,177,220-21 Alliance Française (Paris) Eleonora Schwab Library, Riga, 5, French language studies, 145,252,255,256-57n3 Elie Wiesel Award, 14,241 111, 158,161-65. see also languages and GDS Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, 224 at Blankense Jewish childrens 268
INDEX Elliott, Susan M., 242 Flynn, William J., 133,137, Ellis Island Medal of Honor, 241, 224-31 GDS first meets, 225 Initiative for Peace Award (NCAFP), 241 251 Eltahawy, Mona, 243n8 Engel, Arnold, 256-57n3 Errera, Phillipe, 243n6 as NCAFP chairman, 226-31 Ervine, David, 230 Everts, Steven, 243n6 in Northern Ireland Peace Expressen (Sweden), 246 Process, 5,226-31, 241 Ford, Gerald, 222 Faerber, Jewel, 256-57n3 Forum on Asia Pacific Security (FAPS) project (NCAFP), 5, Faerber, Joel, 256-57n3 Fakhry, Ghida, 243n8 225,231-33 Foss, Hinda, 54 Fanny (seamstress in Liban), 22 Feigelman, Chaim, 50 Feigenbaum, Evan, 243n9 Feigenbaum, Rachelka, 78 Fox, John J., 243n9 Freibergs, Imants, 255 Freidenreich, Feliks, 78 Friedgut, Jac, 222 Feiges, Asja, 105 Friedlander, Henry, 206-8, Feiges, Sascha, 20,33 219nnl-2,242nl Friedlender, Miss (English teacher Feigin, Gerta, 255,256-57n3 Fenia (laundry help in Libau), 23 Ferrarotti, Franco, 193 in Libau), 28 Friedman, Leon B., 256-57n3 Friedman, Marilyn (cousin), Fick, Nathaniel (Nathan), 241, 243nl0 256-57n3 Friedrich, Carl Joachim, 180 Finel-Honigman, Irene, 243n6 Finger, Seymour Maxwell, 242n3 Fink, Egon, 72 Gadol, Joan, 204 Galgut, Asia (aunt), 169 Galgut, Fanny Schwab (aunt), 57, Finkelstein, Miss (Brooklyn teacher), 85 Fischgrund, Susan Bloom, 256 169 Galgut, Henoch, 98 Fisher, Linda, 256-57n3 Fisher, Robert, 256-57n3 Florinsky, Michael, 153 Galgut, Lionel (Leiba) (uncle), 57, 98,169 269
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Goffin, Sherwood, 219,250 Galgut, Oscar, 212 gardening and GDS Goldberg, Eugenia, 56,61,69, in the Liban Jewish ghetto garden, 48,95 at Tel Yitzhak kibbutz, Israel, 75,94 Goldberg, Jule dog bites/leg injury, 63, 64, 66,67 in Israel, 94 in Lübeck, Germany, 75 as protector of GDS, 5, 94-95 Gardner, Richard N„ 243n6 Garvin, Lola, 145 gas chambers, 58, 63 Gaspari, Dr., 59 56-58,61-65,66-67,69 Goldberg, Michael, 94 Goldstein, Walter, 168 GDS. See Schwab, George David (GDS) Gelb, Renia, 151,168,216, golf, 172 256-57n3 Gelb, Victor, 151,168,216, Gorbachev, Mikhail, 225,233-35 Gratulnieks, Mr. (driver in Libau), 24 256-57n3 Genton, Joske, 71 Great Britain British Relief Unit, 71-72 George F. Kennan Award for GDS relatives in London, 57, Distinguished Public Service (NCAFP), 240 Georgetown Law School, Solan 73,99,165 Northern Ireland Peace Schwab graduates from, 216 Process and, 5,226-31,241 in World War II, 31,32,36, German culture {Kultur}, 18,19, 38,40 42, 53 Gerschkewitch clan, 199,200 Gigli, Beniamino, 77 Great War/World War I, 17,18 Greed, John R., 226 Greenberg, Rabbi Irving, 207-8 Gilles, Werner, 156,158-59 gin rummy, 84,167-68,182,217 Greenwood Press, 193-94 Grinberg, Mrs. Täubchen Taub, Ginsberg, Jamie K., 256-57n3 Glaser, Bonnie S., 242n5 glasnost, 225,233 Globke, Hans, 160 105 Grinberg, Salja, 105 Gross, Johannes, 158 Gluck, Sidney, 253-54 Grossman, Marsha Raticoff, 7-12 270
INDEX Groth, Alex, 151,168 Grünwald (Jewish capo), 60 Grynholc, Joseph (second cousin), 217,218 Hathaway, Melissa, 243nl0 Haykel, Bernard, 243nn7-8 Healy, Jon, 243nl0 Heberer, Patricia, 6nl Grynholc, Shulamit (second Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, cousin), 217,218,256 Gunzburg, Macha de, 151,168 Guo, Changlin, 231-32 161 Helman, Anuschka, 105 Helman, Mr., 105 Gurian, Walter, 159 Hentoff, Nat, 209 Hermine, Aunt, see Scher, Hermine Jacobson Kinginthai Doshiang (aunt) Guterres, Antonio, 242 Gutman, Herbert, 205,209,210 Gwan, Kim Kye, 233 Hernandez, Rhett A., 243nl0 Herz, John H., 242n2 Haas, David, 250,256-57n3 Haas, Pamela, 250, 256-57n3 Hessen, Mathilde Nieburg, Haas, Raymond, 255 Haas, Selwyn, 145,255 Haas, Susan, 250,256-57n3 166-67 Hessen, Vladimir, 166-67 Haffkrug (Germany) Latvian childrens home, 68 Hilaire, Christiane, 183 Hilberg, Raul, The Destruction of the European Jews, 7-8 Hilda (British Relief Unit), 71-72 Hilaire, Camille, 183 Haig, Alexander M., 223 Haley, Professor (City College), 92 Hammer, Gaby, 216 Hilfstein, Erna, 194,216 Hilfstein, Max, 216 Handke, Erich, 44,45 Hillerbrand, Hans, 206 Hannah (GDS companion), 184, 186 Himmler, Heinrich, 2-3, 68, 181-82,191 Hindenburg, Paul von, 70,176 Hanoar Hatzioni (Youth ofZion), 92-95 Hans J. Morgenthau Award (NCAFP), 239-40 Hirsch, Evelyn, 151 Harvard University, Clarence Hirschman, Mrs., 105 Hirschmann, Ira, 221 Hirschhorn, Ella, 256-57n3 Hirschman, Mr., 105 Schwab graduates from, 216 271
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Hitler, Adolf crematoria, 58, 63,225 gas chambers, 58,63 accession to power (1933), 156,220 Jewish children as target of annexes Austria (1938), 17-18 attempt to kill, 55 death, 64,77 Nazis, 2-3, 5 memoirs of survivors, 7-12, 13-14 declares war on the U.S. (1941), 46 8-11 war crimes trials, 44, 55-56 invades Poland, 31 liaison officer of, 181-82 see also Auschwitz-Birkenau, office in Berlin, 76-77 (1941-45); Nazis/Nazi Germany; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum neighborliness expectation vs., Poland; Nazi era and GDS push for mass murder of all Jews, 1,2-3,7 release from prison, 158 (Washington, D.C.) Holt, Blaine D„ 243n9 homes of GDS Greenwich Village basement Ribbentrop-Molotov Non aggression Pact with Stalin (1939), 31-32,37-38,40-41 Carl Schmitt and, 175 vow to avoid a two-front war, 38,40 flat, New York City, 168 Lincoln Towers apartments, NewYork City, 201-2, 210-11 Riverside Drive apartment, see also Holocaust; Nazis/Nazi Germany Hobbes, Thomas, 177,193-94, 220 NewYork City, 191,211 Holbrook, Edythe M., 239,241, 243nl0 Latvia, 17,26,34,36-37, 247-48,256 Schwab family forced Schwab apartment in Libau, Holbrook, Morris, 256-57n3 relocations in Libau, 36-39, Holbrook, Sarah, 256-57n3 Holocaust, 1,2-5,14 41-48,248 West 99th Street apartment, Bergen-Belsen, Germany, 75, 80 New York City, 166-68,170, bystander behavior in, 8-11 172-73,179 272
INDEX as subject of Behind the Barbed Wire (Chabrier), 14, honors and awards of GDS Elie Wiesel Award (2018), 14, 241 217-18 Zockele (documentary filmed in Latvia, 2018), 14 Hopkinson, William, 243n6 Ellis Island Medal of Honor (1998), 241,251 George D. Schwab Fellowship Horowitz, Floyd, 256-57n3 Horowitz, Frances Degen, 133, in American Foreign Policy (CUNY Graduate Center), 241 256-57n3 Hoveyda, Abbas, 236 George D. Schwab Foreign Hoveyda, Fereydoun, 235-37, 243n6 Policy Series (NCAFP), 241 Library Associate of the Mina Rees Library, CUNY Howe, Richard R., 238,243n6 Graduate Center (1999), 251-52 Hui, Mrs. Choe Son, 233 Humanitarian and Peace Award listing on donor wall of (NCAFP), 131,240 human rights, 225,236-37,240 Hume, John, 132,227-29,242n4 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Hunt, David P., 243nl0 (Washington, D.C.), 255 oral history videotape in the Hunter, Robert, 235 Hüsmert, Ernst, 158,159, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.), 181-82,196 Hussein, King ofJordan, 135 5,14 Order of Three Stars (2002, Huttenbach, Henry, 204-5,209 Latvia), 241 île de France (ship), 155 (Latvian) Presidents Commission of International Historians membership, Initiative for Peace Award/ William J. Flynn Initiative for Peace Award (NCAFP), 241 252-53 Sholom Aleichem Foundation International Herald Tribune, 220 Iran, 235-37 Irani, K. D„ 92 Irgun Zvai Leumi (Israel), 86 vice presidency (1998), 251, 253-54 speaking engagements, 14 273
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Irish Republican Army (IRA), Jahoda, Fritz, 91-92 227-31 Isaac, Ephraim, 243n6 Janowsky, Oscar, 92 Jebb, Gladwyn, 89 Isaac, Eric, 242nl Isaac, Rael Jean, 242n2 Islamic fundamentalism, 235-37 Jelinek, Fred, 161 Jesus, anti-Semitism and, 14 Jevelson, Abrascha, 169,171-72, Israel declaration of independence 217 Jevelson, Etel, 169,217 Jevelson, Lydia Feiges, 169,217 (1948), 88 GDS studies in, 92-95,109 Islamic fundamentalism and, Jevelson, Zina, 33,169,171,217 Jewish Brigade, 72-76, 86-89 Jewish Survivors of Latvia, 83-84, 235-37 see also Zionist ideology/ Jewish state Jabotinsky, Zev, 85 112,142-45,168,244-45, 248-50 Jiang Zemin, 135,231-32 Joffe, Ann Galgut (second cousin), 212-14 Joffe, Harry (second cousin), Jacobs, Andrew C., 256-57n3 Jacobson, Grischa, 248-49 Jacobson, Isidor (uncle), 26, 33, 212-14 Joffe, Henry, 214 Joffe, Lorna, 214 35,103 Jacobson, Jacob (grandfather), 100 Joint Distribution Committee (Joint), 71-75,79-80,85 Israelit, Zalman, 45,49 Ivanova, Ilana Zivcon, 145,255 Josephson, Murray, 88-89 Judy (GDS companion), 96 Jacobson, Leni (aunt), 26,33,35, Jule. see Goldberg, Jule 103 Jacobson, Rita (aunt), 17-18,23, Jünger, Ernst, 163 Jurkans, Janis, 246 70,103 Jacobson, Rosa Vovsi (second cousin), 96 Kaganski, Menash (Monta), 45, Jacobson, Slova Gerschkewitsch (grandmother), 100 Jacquet, J. J., 166 49 Kahn, Edith, 78,106 Kahn, Shoshana, 248-49 274
INDEX Kahn family, 78,106 (NCAFP), 240 as Honorary Chairman of Kaiser, Joseph, 158 NCAFP, 240 Kaiserwald, Latvia GDS relatives living in, 27,30, Memoirs, 1925-1950,25 Kennedy, Edward, 228 33,247 GDS returns to (1990), 247 Kennedy, Ellen, 192-93 Kerr, Arnold, 78 Kerscher, Franz, 48-49 Kaiserwald concentration camp, 50-54 Kessel family, 45-46,48. see also Sobotka, Mia Kessel Schwab Kanarek, Adam, 96,151,164,168 Kangas, Roger, 243n9 Kapos/capos, 52, 59,60, 66,67 Kastrup, Dieter, 243n6 (sister-in-law) Khan, Muktedar, 243n8 Kharkov, Igor, 243nl0 Kinnor Choir (Latvia), 246,249 Kirchheimer, Otto Katz, Mark N„ 243n9 Katz, Shmuel (Muhi), 242nl Kaufman, Bel, 251, 253-54 Kaufman, Eve (cousin), 256-57n3 Kaufman, Howard, 256-57n3 death, 195-96 GDS dissertation on Carl Schmitt and, 175-80 Kaufman, Hugo, 243n6 Kaufmann, Max, 112,168,248 GDS second dissertation and, 181,183-84 Carl Schmitt breaks with, Churbn Lettland, 77,245 Kavanagh, Camino, 243nl0 Kazakhstan project (NCAFP), 178-79,180 Carl Schmitt influence on, 237-39 Kellogg, Francis L., 131,225-26 Kellogg, Mercedes, 225-26 Kendziorek, Kurt (Jewish capo), 159,175, 220 Kissinger, Henry A., 134,208, 231,232-33,240 60,67 Kennan, George E, 134 in American Legation, Riga, Klippstein, Daniel M., 243n9 Köhler, Reichsbahn Commandant, 55 Kohn, Hans, 91, 92 Kojève, Alexandre, 163-64 25 containment policy, 221,240 George F. Kennan Award for Kon, Selma, 256-57n3 Konigsberg, Madeline, 243n6 Distinguished Public Service 275
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR deportations to Russia, 38-39 GDS annual trips to, 252, Koo Chen-fu, 232 Kopp, Stephanie, 226 Koster, Donald, 209 Kram, Leo, 248 255-56 GDS receives Order of Three Krebsbach, Eduard, 55 Kriegsmarine (Navy), in Libau, Stars (2002), 241 GDS returns to (1990), 5,14, 42-43 Kronberg, Mrs., 45,48-50, 244,245-50 German occupation in World 57-58,248 Krupnikov, Gregory, 142,246, War 1,18 Jewish Survivors of Latvia, 83-84,112,142-45,168, 249,256-57n3 Kügler, Wolfgang, 45,49,248 244-45,248-50 NATO and, 5,247 Nazi occupation ends, 65 President’s Commission of Kurtz, Efrem (Eddie), 182 LaFeber, Walter, 242n3 Lake, Tony, 228 Laks, Renia, 78,79-80,106 International Historians, 252-53 Skede/Skede Memorial, 46, languages and GDS English, 28 French, 111, 158,161-65,187 50,143,144,248 Soviet occupation (1940), German, 28,35,37,49-50, 75,77-78,167,187,192-94, 31-32,34-39 strategic location of, 17,41 249 Hebrew, 72-76,78,92-95 see also Kaiserwald, Latvia; Libau/Liepaja, Latvia; Nazi era and GDS (1941-45); Riga, Latvia Lau, Barbara (cousin) education of Schwab children Latvian, 28, 29, 68 Russian, 28,35,37,167,187 Yiddish, 49-50,53,69,75,249 LaPalombara, Joseph, 243n6 and, 256n2 Eleonora Schwab Library Laski, Harold, 151 Latter, Mrs., 105 Latvia (Riga) and, 256-57n3 in Libau, Latvia, 145,146 in Megève, France, 121 anti-Semitism in, 1,17,29, 246-47,253 21G
INDEX in Munich, 120,197,217, (Schmitt), 193-94,220 Levin, Aaron (cousin), 124,213, 216 218,219n3,252,256 Lau, James (Jimmy, cousin) childhood war games and, 32, 40,44 Levin, Fanny, 213 Levin, Lenore Gladstone (cousin), Eleonora Schwab Library 124,216 Levinsons, Hessy, 151 Lewin, Itzke, 78 Lewis, James A., 243nl0 (Riga) and, 256-57n3 in Libau, Latvia, 32,146 in Megève, France, 121 Lhote, André, 197 Libau/Liepaja, Latvia in Munich, 120,197,217, 218,219n3,252,256 Lauder, Jo Carole, 137 café life in, 19-26, 33, 35 GDS childhood in. see childhood in Libau/Liepaja, Award for Excellence in Cultural Diplomacy (NCAFP), 740,241-42 Latvia GDS returns to (1990), 5,14, Lauder, Ronald, 256 Lay, Nancy, 206 “Left-Wing” Communism (Lenin), 247-50 Jewish ghetto, 45,48-50,248 lighthouse/Lighthouse 153,158 Legality and Legitimacy Memorial, 43-44,143,248 mass slaughter at Skede (Schmitt), 176-77 Leinwand, Fanny, 246 (1941), 46, 50,143,144,TA* Nazi occupation (1941), 2, Leinwand, Michael, 246 Leni (aunt), see Jacobson, Leni 3-5,41-50. see also Nazi era and GDS (1941-45) Schwab family forced relocations, 36-39,41-48, (aunt) Lenin, Vladimir, 37,162 “Left-Wing” Communism, 153,158 Lenson, Michael, 166 248 Schwab family home, 17,26, 34,36-37,247-48,256 Soviet attack on Germany Lerman, Chris, 79-80,106 Lerman, Miles, 79-80,106 Leviathan in the State Theory (1941), 40-41 ofThomas Hobbes, The ХП
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Soviet occupation (1940), Manevich, Samuel, 256-57n3 Manji, Irshad, 243n8 31-32,34-39 strategic location of, 17,41 lice/delousing, 52, 54, 58, 60, 62 Licht, Barney (cousin), 81 Mann, Thomas, 151 Mao Zedong, 225 Margo lick, David, 256-57n3 Maria (housekeeper), 184,185 Licht, Bernard (second cousin), 81 Licht, Ellen Schwab (cousin), 81, Marie (fathers nurse in Libau), 21,36 167,184 Lichtenthal, Roma, 78 Marshak, Robert E., 204-10,211 Martinsson, Mrs. Ragnar, 114 lighthouse/Lighthouse Memorial, Libau/Liepaja, 43-44,143, Masson, Philippe, 256 Mastny, Vojtech, 242nn2-3 Matthaeus, Juergen, 6n3 248 Lincoln Square Synagogue, New Mau, David, 105 York City, 215,219,250 Lindley-French, Julian, 243n6 Mau, Esja, 105 Maya (GDS companion), 110, Lord, Winston, 242n5 Lotrionte, Catherine, 243nl0 152 McCormick, John P., 193 Lotta (Swedish housekeeper), 211 Lougee, Robert, 192 McCrea, William, 229 Lower, Wendy, 1-6,14 Ludzin family, 48 ME Agentur, 46-47, 50 Meilach, Edythe, 117,187,189 Luftwaffe (Air Force), 44 Meilach, Isac, 777,187 Memoirs, 1925-1950 (Kennan), McMahon, Edwina, 227 Lycée Français de New York, 120, 215,216,217 25 Mendelssohn family, 71 Ma, Ying-Jeou, 139,232 Mahallati, Mohammad Ja’afar, 243n8 Mendes-France, Pierre, 163 Merkel, Daniel, 243n9 Mia. see Sobotka, Mia Kessel Major, John, 227,229 mammy, mamma, mammuly, Schwab (sister-in-law) Michlic, Joanna Beata, 6nn3-4 Middle East project (NCAFP), maminka. see Schwab, Klara Jacobson (mother) 235-37 278
INDEX Mintz, Dr. (Brooklyn teacher), Morris, Ann Marie, 256n2 84-85 Mintz, Dr. (Riga), 53 Morrissey, Hatice U., 241,243n6 Mosely, Philip E„ 195-96,198, Miriam (GDS companion), 96 MIT Press, 193 200 Moyne, Lord, 87 Mundheim, Robert, 96 Mitterand, François, 224 Musli, Muhammad, 243n7 Mussolini, Benito, 23, 50,182 Mizroch, Bessie, 213 Mizroch, Maschinka, 94 Mizroch, Owsej, 94 Mohler, Armin, 163-64 Mutual of America, 224-27 Molander, Jan (brother-in-law), Najar, Ginger Runes, 256n2 114,187,217 Molander, Nina (niece), 217 Molander, Robert (nephew), 217 Molander, Ruth Storch (sister-in- Nammack, Amy, 211,216-17 National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP), law) 130-41,220-43 Africa program, 237 illness of, 191 Schwab triplets and, 202,217 American Foreign Policy Interests (magazine), 237,238 American Foreign Policy in Stockholm, 114,187,217 Molyneaux, James, 227 Moore, Pamela, 111, 164,165 Newsletter, 222-23,242n2, 246-47 Angier Biddle Duke Lecture, Moran, Thomas J., 133,226,230 Morgenthau, Hans J., 130,242n3 as chairman of NCAFP, 234,240 Award for Excellence in Cultural Diplomacy and International Engagement, 740,241-42 220-23,235 as co-founder of NCAFP, 220-22 death (1980), 220-21,239-40 Hans J. Morgenthau Award board members, 222,224, (NCAFP), 239-40 242nl conference on “Facing the legacy of, 226 21st Century” (1988), 14, Politics Among Nations, 220 Carl Schmitt and, 220-21 224-25 cyber-security project, 239 279
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR detente policy and, 5,221-22, Track 1%/Track II diplomacy 233-35 Forum on Asia Pacific Security (FAPS) project, 5, and, 5,231-33,242n5 21st Century Leaders Council, 241 225,231-33 founding of, 5,220-22 GDS as co-founder, 5, U.S.-China Relations and the Question of Taiwan, 5,225, 231-33 Young Leader Award, 241 220-22 GDS as member of Board of Directors, 222 GDS as president, 5,223,226, NATO Baltic States and, 5,247 Soviet détente policy and, 239,241-42,256 GDS as senior vice president, 222-23,233-35 Nazi era and GDS (1941-45), 245 GDS as vice president, 253 George D. Schwab Foreign Policy Series, 241 40-65 aboard the Bremerhafen (Nazi ship), 56-58 George F. Kennan Award for brother’s death in Rumbula/ Bikerniek forest, 57,245,246, anti-Semitism and, 47 Distinguished Public Service, 240 249 Burggraben death march, 62, Hans J. Morgenthau Award, 239-40 63 end of Latvia occupation, 65 evacuation by boat to Danzig, Humanitarian and Peace Award, 131,240 Initiative for Peace Award/ 63-64 fathers beating, arrest, and murder at the Libau William J. Flynn Initiative for Peace Award, 241 Kazakhstan project, 237-39 Middle East project, 235-37 Northern Ireland Peace lighthouse, 3,43-44,47,143, Process, 5,226-31,241 Soviet Union and détente 5,14,244,245-50 Jule Goldberg as protector of project, 222-25,233-35 GDS, 5,56-58,61-65 245,248 GDS returns to Latvia (1990), 280
INDEX Nazis/Nazi Germany at Kaiserwald concentration camp, 50-54 declaration of war on the U.S. mass slaughter at Skede (1941), 46 (1941), 46, 50,743, 744,248 GDS studies of Carl Schmitt, Nazi occupation of Libau, 2, 151-52,153-61 3-5,41-50 Great Britain and France reconnects with mother declare war on (1939), 31 aboard the Bremerhafen (Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union ship), 57-58 (1941), 2-3,38 at Reichsbahn Kasernierung invasions and occupations of (railroad system work camp), 1939,2,31,32,41-42 54-56 Jewish children as target of, 1, Schutzpolizei (Schupo; 2-3,4,7 Security Police) and, 42-43 Nuremberg Laws (1935), 160 Schutzstaffel (SS) and, 49, 50, occupation of Libau/Liepaja, 52,54,58-64,66 Latvia (1941), 2, 3-5,41-50. Schwab family forced see also Nazi era and GDS relocations in Libau, 36-39, (1941-45) 41-48,248 postwar Übermenschen and, Schwab family valuables and, 67-68,77 34,42-43,48-50,54 Ribbentrop-Molotov Non separation from brother, aggression Pact with Stalin Boris, 55-56 (1939), 31-32,37-38,40-41 Sicherheitsdienst (SD, Security Carl Schmitt and, 4,159,160, Service) and, 42-46,48-50, 177 57-58 Das Schwarze Korps (The Stutthof extermination camp/ Black Corps, SS newspaper), satellite camp, 4, 58-63,225 159-60 work detail as electrician, 55 Soviet Union attacks work detail as messenger boy, 49 Germany (1941), 40-41 work detail in the Jewish war crimes trials, 44, 55-56 ghetto garden, 48 see also Hitler, Adolf; see also Nazis/Nazi Germany Holocaust 281
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Carl Schmitt in. see Schmitt, NCAFP. see National Committee on American Foreign Policy Carl GDS and Klara Schwab arrive (NCAFP) Nenoff, Lydia, 117,187-88 Nenoff, Vladimir (Wlado) in, 80-83 GDS at New Utrecht High GDS academic career and, School, Brooklyn, 84-91,107 GDS homes in. see homes of 168,195 illness of Klara Schwab and, 184 GDS Latvian Jewish survivors in, as physician, 96,184 83-84,112,142-45,168, tennis and, 217 at wedding of GDS, 117, 244-45,248-50 Anya Storch (mother-in-law) 187-88 visits, 189-91,215 New York Post, 205 New York Times, 205,210 Neumann, Franz, 150-51,152, 153,159,177,180,220 Neustadt, Ernst, 91 Nimetz, Matthew, 243n9 Neustadt, Tekla Remigolski, 91 New Left, at City College, 204-5 9/11 terrorist attacks, 235 Nixon, Richard, 130 New Utrecht High School, Nobel Prizes/Nobel laureates, 14, Brooklyn, 84-91,107 New York City 138,153,224,225,244,245 Noland, Aaron, 92 Northern Ireland Peace Process academic career of GDS at City College, see City College at Columbia University, see (NCAFP), 5,226-31,241 Nuremberg Laws (1935), 160 Nuta. see Bruskin, Nuta Wainstein (cousin) Columbia University at CUNY, see City University of New York (CUNY) Nye, Joseph S., Jr., 243nl0 Graduate Center and the National Committee Obama, Barack, 141 on American Foreign Policy. Obama, Michelle, 141 Odlozilik, Otakar, 207 see National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) One China concept, 232 open society bloc concept, 223,235 282
INDEX opera, 33,78-79,161-62,168, Plottel, Jeanine Parisier, 151,168, 187,197,199 ORBIS, 198 Order of Three Stars (Latvia), 241 Ordway, John M., 243n9 172,251-52,256n2 Plottel, Roland, 151,168,172 poker, 18, 67 Poland Bergen-Belsen (Germany), Origins of Totalitarianism 75, 80 famine-related deaths in Jewish ghettos, 2,6n2 (Arendt), 153 Ostwald, Martin, 152-53 Oxford University, 14 Ozick, Cynthia, 8,12nnl-2 Nazi occupation of (1939), 2,31 Soviet invasion of (1939), 31 Stutthof extermination camp/ Paal, Douglas H., 242n5 Pach, Walter, 91-92 satellite camps, 4,58-63,225 see also Auschwitz-Birkenau, Page, Stanley, 204-5,209 Paisley, Ian, 133,227,229-30 papa, papinka. see Schwab, Arkady Jacob Aron (father) Poland Political Theology (Schmitt), 193 Partnership for Peace (PfP), 223 Politics Among Nations Paula (GDS companion), 184 Pearl Harbor (1941), 46 (Morgenthau), 220 postwar period and GDS aboard S.S. Marine Perch Percopo, Christa, 243n6 perestroika, 225,233 Peters, Joan, 142,251,253,254 Peter the Great (film), 37 (troop carrier) to the U.S., 79-80,106 arrival in New York City, Petraeus, David, 137 80-81, 82-83. see also New York City at Blankenese Jewish childrens home (Hamburg, Pham, Peter, 237 Phares, Amir, 243n7 Phillips, Ann, 243n6,256-57n3 Piccone, Paul, 194 Pickering, Thomas R., 234,240 Germany), 71-76, 86 Jule Goldberg as protector of Pincus, Rizel, (GDS companion), 168 GDS, 66-67,69 at Haffkrug Latvian children s home (Germany), 68 Platt, Nicholas, 242n5 283
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR liberation and recovery Ranke, Leopold von, 157-58 in Neustadt in Holstein, Germany, 65-70 reunites with mother in Rapina, Ester, 246,249 Ratz, Jac, 248 Germany (1946), 4,73-79, Redlich, Rolf, 71 Regina (housekeeper), 202,211 RCA, 172 105,106 at Schlachtensee DP camp Reichlin, Henry, 171,182 Reichman, Jessica, see Deutsch, Jessica Reichman (Germany), 77-79 travel to the U.S., 79-81 visits Bergen-Belsen DP camp, Reichman, Myrone, 212 Reichman, Pete, 201-2,212-14 80 Reichman, Rhoda Galgut Potemkin (film), 37 Powell, Colin L., 136 (cousin), 201-2,212-14 Reichsbahn (German railroad Preuss, Hugo, 154,177 Pringsheim, Erika (godchild), 195 system), 53-62 Reichsbahn Kasernierung (railroad Pringsheim, Klaus, 151,168,172, system Nazi work camp), 53, 195 Prinz, Rabbi Joachim, 116,117,187 54-56,57,66 Rendu, Denise (GDS Proshansky, Harold, 124,206 prostitution, 69-70,161 Putin, Vladimir, 235 companion), 111, 162-63, 165 Revere, Evans, 242n5 Revista de Ciencias SocialesValparaiso (Chile), 193 Puzzo, Dante, 204 Quaritsch, Helmut, 158 Reynolds, Albert, 227,229 Rabinovich, Jascha, 105 Rabinovich, Max, 21-22,188 Rabinovich, Minna (second cousin), 21-22 Ri, Gun, 233 Ribbentrop-Molotov Non aggression Pact with Stalin (1939), 31-32,37-38,40-41 Raduege, Harry D., 243nl0 Rice, Donald S., 238,243n6,256, Raines, Tsilia, 252 Rakhman, Liuba, 256-57n3 Ramo, Joshua Cooper, 241 256-57n3 Rice, Edgenie, 256-57n3 Richardson, John B., 243n6 284
INDEX Riga, Latvia annual commemorative Eleonora Schwab Library, ceremonies (July 4), 5 Riga and, 255,256-57n3 European travel with GDS, Betar (Brit Trumpeldor) founding in, 86 138,145,147,255-56 first meets GDS, 254 café life in, 25-26,27-28 described, 25 NCAFP and, 5,137,225, 255-56 Eleonora Schwab Library, 5, Russia, deportation of 145,252,255,256-57n3 GDS returns to (1990), 5,14, Latvians to, 38-39 support for charities in Latvia, 142-45,244,245-47 Schwab family holidays in, 255 and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.), 18-19,25,26-28,30-31,33, 254 34-35,103 Ripp, Eleanor, 256n2 Robbins, Tobey, 146,254-55 Robinson, Julia Gindiga, 248, 254,256n2 Riskin, Rabbi Shlomo, 219,250 Rita (aunt), see Jacobson, Rita Robinson, Peter, 229,230 (aunt) Rockefeller, David, 134 Rockefeller, Happy, 137 Rockefeller Foundation, 177 Rittner, Carol (Sister Carol, Sister ofMercy), 7-12,224-26, 228,251,256n2 Robbins, Harvest, 146,254-55 Robbins, Lester, 254 Rogers, Lindsay, 153,173,179 Rohozinski, Rafal, 243nl0 romantic interests/companions of Robbins, Lew, 197 Robbins, Lillian, 197,256n2 Robbins, Page Sargisson, 146, GDS Macha de Gunzburg (Columbia University), 151, 168 254-55 Robbins, Peter, 146,254-55 Robbins, Sheila Johnson Hannah, 184,186 Judy, 96 children and grandchildren, Miriam, 96 246,254-55 death (2020), 254-5 5 described, 254 niece of Karl Wolff (SS general), 181-82 285
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Paula, 184 Denise Rendu (Paris), Rosovsky, Selig, 83-84,167 Rosovsky, Sonia, 83-84,167 162-63,165 Veltina (Latvian grade-school Ross, Alexander J„ 256-57n3 Rossiter, Clinton, 152 Rostropovich, Mstislav, 167 classmate), 29,33,47 Maya Yardney (Columbia University), 110,152 Roth, John К., 9,12n5 Rottenberg, Reba 1,256-57n3 Rotunda, Donald, 242n2 roulette, 182,188 Rudolf, Edith, 137,256,256n2 Rudolf, William M., 137,243n6, see also Robbins, Sheila Johnson; Schwab, Eleonora Storch (wife) Romm, Fanny Galgut, 98 Romm, Herman, 98 243nl0,256 Romm, Sima, 98 Rosen, Edward, 92,174,179,195, Russell, Daniel, 243n9 Russia, deportation of Latvians to, 204-5,209 Rosenbaum, Charlotte, 71,76 38-39 Rüstow, Dankwart A., 195-96, Rosengarten, Betty Feiges, 167 Rosensaft, Yosele, 75 Rosenstreich, Bari, 146 242nn2-3 Rustow, Margrit, 256-57n3 Rutgers University Press, 193 Rybak, Tunia, 78 Rosenstreich, Lori, 146 Rosenstreich, Marjorie, 146 Rywkin, Michael, 151,238, Rosenwald, Alice, 171,172 242n2,243n6 Rosenwald, Elizabeth, 171-73 Rosenwald, Mary Kurtz, 169, Sachs, Marcus, 243nl0 Rosenwald, William (Bill), 169, Sacks, Sophie, 48 Saideman, Beulah, 256-57n3 Saideman, Lewis, 200 171-73 Rosovsky, Alex, 84 Saideman, Mara, 200 Saideman, Nina Rosenwald, Rosovsky, Boris, 84,167 172-73,182-83,187 Saideman, Reuben, 256-57n3 Saideman, Rochelle Nitzberg, 171-73,183 Rosenwald, Nina, 171-73,243n6 Rosovsky, Fira, 84,167,199 Rosovsky, Henry, 84 Rosovsky, Olga, 84,151 197,200,256n2,256-57n3 286
INDEX Schalit, Betty, 26, 51 Saideman, Sanford (Sandy) Century Club (Purchase, NY) and, 200-201 Scharia, David, 243nl0 Scher, Alexander, 155 Scher, Hermine Jacobson children, 200 divorce with Nina, 197 Eleonora Schwab Library, Kinginthai Doshiang (aunt) Riga and, 256-57n3 in Europe, 142,182-83,197, 200-201 first meets GDS at camp Berkshire Pines, 96 168-69,187 death of husband, Xavier in Berlin, 23,70,76,91,102, Kinginthai Doshiang (1935), 23, 91 diplomatic passport, 22-23, first meets Eleonora Storch, 57,198 as Hindenburg s “Garbo,” 70, 187 GDS academic career and, 102 in Libau, 22-23 marries Leo Scher, 168 168,179,195,209 meets and marries Rochelle Nitzberg, 197,200 meets and marries Nina in Moscow and Leningrad, 198-200 Rosenwald, 172-73 roulette and, 182,188 reconnects with sister, Klara Schwab, 168-70 in Riga, 26,27,30-31,33, 34-35,51,203,198,245-46, at wedding of GDS, 117,187 Saideman, Seth (godchild), 200 Samuelson, Arthur, 90 Samuelson, Gerri, 81, 82-83,90, 247 Scher, Leo (uncle), 168,198-200 Scher, Rosa Berlin, 155 167 Samuelson, Leo, 81, 82-83,90 Schiff, Gaby, 224 Schifftan, Karl (uncle), 27,70 Sandy, see Saideman, Sanford (Sandy) Sanger, David E., 243nl0 Sarnoff, David, 172 Sauer, Albert, 54 Schifftan, Marta (grandaunt), 27, 30-31,76,103 Schifftan, Tanya Jacobson (aunt) home in Berlin, 70,76 Scalapino, Robert A., 242n5 Schain, Martin, 243n6 home in Kaiserwald, 27,247 home in Riga, 27,30-31, 51 287
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR as subject of GDS Columbia Schlachtensee DP camp, Germany, 77-79 Schlachter, Mona, 142, 251, University Masters degree essay, 151-52 as subject of GDS Columbia 256n2,256-57n3 Schleicher, Kurt von, 178 Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., 228, University Ph.D. dissertation, 4,153-61,175-80,183 wedding of daughter, Anima, 242nn2-3 Schmitt, Anima, 160-61,162-63 Schmitt, Carl, 151-61 160-61,162-63 works anti-Semitism and, 151-52, The Concept ofthe Political 154-55,157,160,175,177, 192,220-21 breaks with Otto (trans, by GDS), 193 Constitutional Theory (1928), 177 Dictatorship (1921), 176 Kirchheimer, 178-79,180 GDS delivers lecture at City University of New York Graduate Center, 206 GDS translates and publishes, 192-94 Legality and. Legitimacy GDS dissertation defense, (1932), 176-77 175-80 GDS meets intellectual The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes, (trans, by GDS), 193-94,220 colleagues of, 158-59, 163-64 Political Theology (trans, by GDS publishes The Challenge GDS), 193 Verfassungslehre (1928), 220-21 ofthe Exception (first and second editions) on, 192-93 GDS visits in Plettenberg, Schneider, Gertrude, 55-56,249 Schnur, Roman, 158,180 Schoenberger, Ida Firkser Schwab Germany, 154-61,169,173, 196 (aunt) illness of Klara Schwab, 184 meets Eleonora Schwab, 196 Hans J. Morgenthau and, Schwab family in New York 220-21 City and, 80-81,82-83,90, 108,167 Schoenberger, Rabbi, 81,84, 91 Nazis/Nazi Germany and, 4, 159,160,177 288
INDEX Scholem, Gershom, 164 death in Rumbula/Bikerniek Schulman, Roza, 105 Schutzpolizei (Schupo; Security forest, 57,245,246,249 at Kaiserwald concentration Police), 42-43 Schutzstaffel (SS), 49, 50,52,54, 58—64,66 camp, 50-53 in Libau/Liepaja, 101,102 love of tennis, 18,24,25,248 Schwab, Adrian (son), 201 marries Mia Kessel, 45. see also Sobotka, Mia Kessel Schwab Schwab, Amalia (cousin), 165 Schwab, Amalia Galgut (grandmother), 98,148 (sister-in-law) Nazi invasion of Libau (1941) Schwab, Arkady Jacob Aron (father) and, 41 in Nazi work crews, 43,44, 55 at Reichsbahn Kasernierung (railroad system work camp), beating, arrest, and murder by Nazis, 3,43-44,47,143,245, 248 as first in Latvia to treat diabetes with insulin, 18 53, 54-55,57 in Riga, 104 as stamp collector, 37,45,112 as gastroenterologist in Libau, struggles in school, 28 Schwab, Clarence (son), 117-22, 18,21,33-36 German Kultur (culture) and, 127 Bar Mitzvah (1982), 13,121, 18,19,42, 53 in Libau/Liepaja, 17-18, 98, 219,250 birth, 117,201-2 children, 251 101,105 as physician in the Imperial death of mother, Eleonora, Russian Army, 34,99 Soviet deportations and, 38 250-51 education, 120,122,215-16, wealth of father, David, 34, 38 Schwab, Ava Eleana 250 at Ellis Island Medal of Honor (granddaughter), 13,129,251 Schwab, Bernard (cousin), 165 ceremony for GDS, 251 Schwab, Bernhard (uncle), 80 Schwab, Bernhard Boris (Bubi, brother) family travel with parents, 118-21,211-18 marries Pamela Haas, 125,251 289
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Examination Board, 197 Schwab, Claude (son), 117-23,127 Bar Mitzvah (1982), 13,121, death (1998), 250-51 described, 186,187 Eleonora Schwab Library, 219,250 birth, 117,201-2 children, 13,128,129,251 death of mother, Eleonora, Riga, 5,145,252,255, 256-57n3 engagement to GDS, 113, 250-51 education, 120,122,215-16, 114,187 enrolls at Hunter College, 197 family holidays and 250 at Eleonora Schwab Library dedication (2001), Riga, 252 celebrations, 121,125-26, family travels with parents, 219,250,251 family vacations and travel, 118-21,211-18 marries Diana Han, 126,251 Schwab, David (cousin), 165 118-21,211-18 first meets GDS, 185-86 Schwab, David Hirsch Israel (grandfather), 98 grave in Libau/Liepaja, 148, and George D. Schwab Family Fund, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, 252 149 wealth of, 34,38 Schwab, Diana Han (daughter-in- marries GDS, 116,117, 187-89 NCAFP and, 134 at reunion of Latvian Jews in law), 126,251 Riga (1993), 142,248-50 South African sabbatical trip, Schwab, Eleonora Cara (Ellie, granddaughter), 13,127,251 Schwab, Eleonora Storch (wife) birth and childhood in Riga, 211-14 in Stockholm, 114,214-15 Storch family dynamics Latvia, 249 cancer diagnosis and and, 189-91,199,214-15, treatment, 215,250 children, see Schwab, Clarence 250-51 Schwab, Erna Taub (aunt), 100 Schwab, Esther (cousin), 256- (son); Schwab, Claude (son); Schwab, Solan (son) 57n3 Schwab, Fanny (aunt), 98 at The College Entrance 290
INDEX Schwab, George David (GDS) academic career death of wife, Eleonora, 250-51 education, see education of GDS at City College, see City College at Columbia University, see Columbia University family holidays and celebrations, 121,125-26, at CUNY, see City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center 219,250,251 family portrait, 127 family vacations and travel, and the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. 111,118-21,211-18 see National Committee on grandchildren, 13,127-29, American Foreign Policy 251 health issues, 53-55,67,74 homes of. see homes of GDS honors and awards, see honors (NCAFP) Carl Schmitt in. see Schmitt, Carl antipathy toward and awards of GDS languages of. see languages communism, 37-38, 85, 89-90,161-62,221-22 and GDS meets and marries Eleonora birth in Libau, Latvia (1931), 1,247-48 Storch, see Schwab, Eleonora Storch (wife) childhood, see childhood in Libau/Liepaja, Latvia meets Sheila Johnson Robbins, 254. see also Robbins, Sheila Johnson children, see Schwab, Clarence (son); Schwab, Claude (son); Schwab, Solan (son) death of brother, Boris, 57, music and, 18,27-28, 32,33, 34,61,76-79,91-92 in Nazi era. see Nazi era and 245,246,249 death of companion, Sheila GDS (1941-45) in New York City, see New York City Johnson Robbins, 254-55 death of father, Arkady, 3, 43-44,47,243,245,248 death of mother, Klara, 184, 188 postwar period, see postwar period and GDS romantic interests and 291
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR companions, see romantic at Kaiserwald concentration camp, 50-54 interests/companions of GDS as stamp collector, 37 summer camps, 85-86,96 in Libau/Liepaja, 17-29,101, 102,105 Nazi-era work assignments, 44-45,48-50,54,57-58, swimming/lifeguard skills, 19, 96-97,220,172 tennis and, 18,24,200-201, 248 248 in New York City, 108,110, 112 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.) and. postwar travels, 111 as professional cellist, 27-28, 34,170 see United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.) Schwab, Harry (cousin), 81,167, 184 Schwab, Jonah Eric (grandson), reconnects with sister, Hermine, 168-70 reunites with GDS in Germany (1946), 4,73-79, 105,106 13,227,251 Schwab, Klara Jacobson (mother) aboard 8.8. Marine Perch in Riga, 18-19,25, 26-28, 103 tennis and, 18,169,248 West 99th Street apartment, (troop carrier) to the U.S., 79-80,106 aboard the Bremerhafen (Nazi ship), 57-58 New York City, 166-68,170, arrival in New York City, 172-73,179 Schwab, Leo (uncle), 98,100 Schwab, Lisa Davis (daughter-in- 80-81 beating, arrest, and murder of law), 225, 251,256-57n3 Schwab, Michael Adrian husband by Nazis, 3,43-44, (grandson), 13, 227,251 Schwab, Nellie (aunt), 99,165 Schwab, Noah Alexander 243,245,248 death of son in Rumbula/ Bikerniek forest, 57,245,246, (grandson), 13,128,129,251 Schwab, Pamela Haas (daughter- 249 illness and death, 184,188 in-law), 125,127,250,251 292
INDEX Schwab, Robert (uncle) conversion to Catholicism, Scowcroft, Brent, 234 SD {Sicherheitsdienst, Security Service), 42-46,48-50, 165 death, 165 57-58 Sears, Roebuck, 169 in London, 57,73,99,165 Segal, Adam, 243nl0 at Shell Oil, 73,165 Schwab, Solan (son), 117-22,127 Bar Mitzvah (1982), 13,121, Segals, Henrietta, 186 Segals, Ilja, 147 Segals, Meier, 186 219,250 birth, 117,201-2 children, 251 Seton Hill University, 14 Shaffer, Elaine, 182 death of mother, Eleonora, Shah of Iran, 235-36 250-51 education, 120,122,215-16, Shell Oil, 73,165 Sholom Aleichem Foundation, 251,253-54 250 family travels with parents, 118-21,211-18 Shubitz, Helen, 188 Shubitz, Simon, 188 Sicherheitsdienst (SD, Security Service), 42-46,48-50, 57-58 marries Lisa Davis, 125,251 Schwab, Yette (aunt), see Wainstein, Yette Schwab (aunt) Sick, Max (Homen), 53, 54 Silberman, David, 255 Schwab, Zachary Eli (grandson), Silvestri, Stefano, 243n6 Sim, Mrs. Hwang Myong, 233 13,128,129,251 Schwartz, Arlene, 146 Schwartz, Barbara, 168 Sinn Fein (arm of IRA), 227-31 Sinnott, Peter J., 238 Sister Carol, see Rittner, Carol Schwartz, Bernie, 81, 83,167 Schwartz, Marcia, 81, 83, 90,110, (Sister Carol, Sister of Mercy) 152,167 Schwartz, Marjorie (Cookie), 83 Schwartz, Peter, 83,146 Skede/Skede Memorial, Latvia, 46, 50,143,144,248 Smith, Gustav, 80,167,213 Smith, Jean Kennedy, 228 Das Schwarze Korps (The Black Corps, SS newspaper), 159-60 Smith, Raya Taub, 80,167,213 293
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR smoking, 22-23,25-26,70,74 Snow, Mr. (Brooklyn teacher), 85 Ribbentrop-Molotov Non Snyder, Louis, 92,174 Germany (1939), 31-32, 37-38,40-41 aggression Pact with Nazi Sobotka, Genek, 170,185,187 Sobotka, Mia Kessel Schwab (sister-in-law) Spektor, Johanna, 256-57n3 Springfield, Muriel, 248,255, GDS visits in Europe, 170, 256-57n3 Springfield, Naomi, 256-57n3 Springfield, Peter, 248,256-57n3 185,187 at Kaiserwald, 50-51 marries Bernhard Boris Springfield, Steven, 248,255, Schwab, 45,47-48,25 5 marries Genek Sobotka, 170 256-57n3 VS. Atlantic (ship), 93 SS Gaertnerei (SS Nursery Garden Sobotka, Sam, 170,185,187 Soderberg, Nancy, 228, 243n6 Sohlman, Eva, 237 Nazi work camp), 54 S.S. Marine Perch (troop carrier), 79-80,106 Stalin, Joseph, 17,162,199-200 Sorbonne, Paris, 162 Soudeikine, Sergei, 166 South Africa, GDS sabbatical Ribbentrop-Molotov Non aggression Pact with Hitler (1939), 31-32,37-38,40-41 semester in, 206,211-14 South African Jewish Times, 202 Soviet Union attacks Germany (1941), 40-41 see also Soviet Union Stand, Anni, 156,160-61,196 Stargardt, Nicholas, 6nl Stefa (housekeeper in Libau), 17, collapse (1991), 233-34,238 19,23,24, 36 invades Poland (1939), 31 National Committee on American Foreign Policy Steiner, Frances, 167 Stern, Fritz, 207 222-25,233-35 Nazi Germany invades Stern, Vera, 256-57n3 Stern Gang (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel), 86-90,91 (1941), 2-3, 38 occupation of Latvia (1940), Stewart, John N., 243nl0 Stockholm, Sweden (NCAFP) détente project, GDS first travels to, 170,185 31-32,34-39 294
INDEX GDS meets Storch family, 187 support ofJews during World Nobel laureate dinner (2009), War II, 187,191,198-99 wife’s behavior and, 191 138,225 Schwab family trips to, 119, in World War II, 7/5 Storch, Marcus (brother-in-law) 214-15,217 Stockton University, 14 Storch, Anya (mother-in-law) as chairman of the Nobel Foundation, 225 Schwab triplets and, 202, engagement and marriage of daughter to GDS, 114, 214-15,217 in Stockholm, 114,187, 187-89 in New York City, 189-91,215 Schwab triplets and, 202, 214-15,217 Storch, Mulya, 198-99 Storch, Tobias (nephew), 217 Straits Exchange Foundation 214-15,217 in Stockholm, 114,187, (SEF), 232 214-15 Storch family dynamics, 189- Strand, Karen S., 256-57n3 Strauss, Leo, 159,177,220 Strong, Tracy B., 194 91,199,214-15,250-51 Storch, Eleonora, see Schwab, Storch, Elisabeth (Flisa) (niece), 217,250 Storch, Gunilla (sister-in-law), Strott, Karl Emil, 45 Stroup, John, 193 Stutthof extermination camp/ satellite camps, Poland, 4, 745,217 Storch, Hilel (Gilel) (father-in- 58-63,225 Suharenko, Arkady, 255 Eleonora Storch (wife) law) engagement and marriage Suharenko, Olga, 255 Sutherland, Joan, 187 of daughter to GDS, 114, Sutin, Claire, 214 Sutin, David, 214 187-89 financial difficulties, 191,199 Schwab triplets and, 119,202, Sutin, Gerald (Gerry, cousin), 724,214,256-57n3 Sutin, Linda, 214 214-15,217 in Stockholm, 114,119, Sutin, Myra (cousin), 124,214, 256-57n3 214-15 295
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Übermenschen, 67-68,77,153 Taft, Earl, 151 Taft, Hessy Levinsons, 151 Ulmanis, Guntis, 252 Taheri, Amir, 237,243n7 Taiwan (Republic of China) Forum on Asia Pacific Ulmen, G. L„ 192,194,256-57n3 Ulrich, Mr. (Libau school director), 29 Security (FAPS) project United Nations (UN) Security Council, 242 (NCAFP), 5,225,231-33 Taiwan Relations Act (1979), Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 236-37 231 Tamny, Martin, 207 Tanya, Aunt, see Schifftan, Tanya Jacobson (aunt) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.), 79,254 Taubes, Jacob, 164 Teichtahl, Wolfgang, 71 donor wall, 255 GDS becomes adviser to, 224 Teier, Zvi, 72 TELOS, 194 GDS on Collections and Acquisitions Committee, 224 tennis, 18,24,25,35,169, 200-201,212,217,248 GDS oral history videotape in, 5,14 Theodore Roosevelt and Labor 1900-1918 (Greenberg), GDS receives Elie Wiesel Award, 14,241 207-8 Thompson, Beverly, 242n3 origins and opening (1993), 4-5,14 University of Chicago Thompson, Kenneth, 242n3 Thompson, Nicholas, 243nl0 Solan Schwab graduates from, Tiedemann, Arthur, 209 Tiersky, Ronald, 243n6 216 University of Chicago Press, 193-94 Tokaev, Kasymzhomart, 238 Tomsen, Peter, 238 University of Pennsylvania ORBIS, 198 Track 1/Track II diplomacy, 5, Claude Schwab graduates 231-33,242n5 21st Century Leaders Council (NCAFP), 241 from, 216 Usiskin, Helen (Hilda) Krom, typhoid fever, 62-63 110,152,165,167 296
INDEX Watkins, Frederick, 152 Wechsler, Sally, 197,256n2 Veltina (Latvian grade-school classmate), 29, 33,47 Verfassungslehre (Schmitt), 220-21 Weinreich, Dr., 49 Vickrey, William, 153 Wexelman, Liat Sela, 252 Vike-Freiberga, Vaira, 5,138,145, Wiener, Joel, 209,211,256-57n3 Wiener, Suzanna (Sue), 211, Weinreich, Push, 49 242,252,255 Village Voice, 209 256n2,256-57n3 Wiesel, Elie, 12n6,124 birthplace in Romania, 244 as chairman of the Vishinsky, Andrei, 35,247 Vogel, Ezra, 242n5 Volcker, Paul, 240 Commission on the Holocaust, 10-11 Volker, Kurt, 243n6 Vorobjov, Nikita, 147 and duty of Holocaust Wainstein, Israel (Ljolja, cousin), survivors, 245 Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, 224 38-39,42 Wainstein, Manya (cousin), GDS friendship with, 4,207 103. see also Alder, Manya Wainstein (cousin) Humanitarian and Peace Award (NCAFP), 131,240 on NCAFP Board, 224 Nobel Peace Prize (1986) and, 224 Wainstein, Yette Schwab (aunt), 38-39,98,248 home at am Schwanenteich (Swan’s Pond), 24-25,41,46 murder of son, Israel, 42 Sholom Aleichem Foundation transport to Skede, 46 Walçsa, Lech, 224 and, 253 trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau (1988), 14 Wang Daohan, 231-32 Warburg, Anita, 224 Warburg, Max, 71 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum war games, 32,40,44,48, 85-86 (Washington, D.C.) and, 4-5, Warnecke, Grace Kennan, 240, 14,224,254-55 Wiesel, Marion, 254 241,243n6 War Refugee Board, 221 Wigner, Eugene, 242nl 297
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Winkler, Ettelka (piano teacher in Yellowitz, Irwin, 209 Liban), 18,27-28,32,34,105 Wisan, Professor (City College), 174 Yette, Aunt, see Wainstein, Yette Schwab (aunt) Young Leader Award (NCAFP), 241 Wisner, Heinz, Giinther, 55-56 Wittlin, Barbara, 256-57n3 Wittlin, Harry, 256-57n3 Wolff, Karl, 181-82 Wolfschmidt Vodka, 94 Zagoria, Donald S., 231,242n2, 242n5 Zaharjina, Irina, 147 Wollheim, Norbert, 75 Zaharjina, Jelena, 145 Wood, Neal, 175-76 World Jewish Congress, 187 Zaharjina, Svetlana, 147,255 Zaharjins, Aleksejs (Alex), 147, World War I/Great War, German end of, 67 Pearl Harbor (1941), 46 255 Zaharjins, Sergejs, 145,147,255 Zaharjins, Valerijs, 147 Zionist ideology/Jewish state Aliyah (Ascent) to Israel and, Soviet Union attacks Germany (1941), 40-41 78,79 Betar (Brit Trumpeldor), see also Holocaust; Nazi era 86-87 declaration ofJewish states occupation of Latvia, 17,18 World War II and GDS (1941-45); Nazis/ Nazi Germany Wuorinen, John, 92,176 independence (1948), 88 GDS studies in Israel, 93-96, Wybou, Gitta M., 256-57n3 Wyshograd, Michael, 242nl 109 Hanoar Hatzioni (Youth of Xavier, Uncle, see Doshiang, Zion), 92-95 Irgun Zvai Leumi, 86 Jewish Brigade, 72-76, 86-89 Xavier Kinginthai (Dr. King Li, uncle) Palmach movement, 86 Revisionist Party, 85-90 Yardney, Maya, 110,152 Yawitch, Polly, 213 Yehudah, Ben, 72 Stern Gang (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel), 86-90,91 Zirinski, Mrs., 105 298
INDEX Zockele (dimunitive for “George”), 20, 57,179 Zockele (documentary on GDS), 14 Zuhur, Sherifa, 243n8 Zycer brothers, 78 299 BayerischQ Stsalsbibllothek
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CONTENTS Foreword by Wendy Lower 1 Introduction by Carol Rittner 7 Preface by George Schwab 13 Acknowledgment by George Schwab 15 A Charmed Childhood—The 1930s 17 II. End of the Idyll—Soviet Occupation 30 I. III. War 40 IV. Street Boy 66 V. Street Boy Tamed VI. 82 Intellectual Other Columbia Adventures 150 VII. Road to the Beginning of a Career—Teaching 166 VIII. Disaster at Columbia at Home 175 IX. Marriage 185 X. Fate of the Rejected Ph.D. Dissertation on Carl Schmitt 192 XI. Birth of a Family and Victory at Columbia XII. Tortuous Academic Road but Wonderful Family Experiences XIII. National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP)—Highlights XIV. 195 Returning to Latvia, Tragedy at Home, Renewal 203 220 244 Selected Bibliography 258 Index 261
INDEX Note: Italicized page numbers indicate captioned photographs. Abelit, Mr. (Libau), 54 academic career of GDS 33,34-35,103 Ackermann, Samjon (Joni, at Columbia University, see cousin), 27,33, 51,104 Adams, Gerry, 132,133, 227-31 Adelson, Howard L., 204-5,209, Columbia University at CUNY, see City University of New York (CUNY) 242nl,256-57n3 Adenauer, Konrad, 160 Advocate, Barbara, 256n2 Graduate Center and the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. Africa GDS sabbatical semester in at City College, see City College South Africa, 206,211-14 NCAFP Africa project, 237 see National Committee on Ahimark, Per, 142,244-49 American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) Ahtisaari, Martti, 139 Carl Schmitt in. see Schmitt, Aivazovski, Ivan, 34 Alder, David (cousin), 73,188-89 Alder, Manya Wainstein (cousin), Carl Ackermann, Gusti Jacobson 19,73,103,188-89,256- (aunt), 27,34-35,103,104 Ackermann, Ljuba (Lully, cousin), 57n3 Alder, Mascha (second cousin), 27, 33,103,104 Ackermann, Oskar (uncle), 27, 30, 188-89 261
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Alderdice, John, 227,228 Nazi occupation of Libau/ Aleichem, Sholom, 251,253-54 Alliance Française, Paris, 111, 158, Liepaja and, 45,47,48-50 Nuremberg Laws (1935), 160 Carl Schmitt and, 151-52, 161-65 Alperovitch, Dmitri, 243nl0 al-Qaeda, 237 154-55,157,160,175,177, 192,220-21 Alroy, Gil Carl, 242n2 Arab Spring (2010), 237 Arendt, Hannah, 152,153 Arias, Inocencio E, 243n6 Altmann, Riidiger, 158 Ambrose, Stephen, 207 Amendola, Giuseppe, 242n2, Armel, Rosa Vovsi, 184 Arndt, Hans-Joachim, 111, 158, 243n6,243nl0 American Federation ofJews from Central Europe, 224 163,165 Aron, Raymond, 163 American Foreign Policy Interests Arons, Michael, 209 Assar, Nassir, 243n7 Association for New Americans, (magazine), 237,238 American Foreign Policy Newsletter, 222-23,242n2, 85 Association for Relations Across 246-47 American Historical Review, The, 192 the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), 231-32 Athen (ship), 65 Atlantic Beach Club (Long Island, American Joint Distribution Committee (Joint), 71-75, 79-80, 85 New York), 216-17 Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland Amery, Jean, 12n3 Angier Biddle Duke Lecture GDS trip to (1988), 14, (NCAFP), 234,240 anti-Semitism, 2-5 224-25,244-45 Schwab family relatives and, GDS first experience with, 29 of GDS friends, 163 Jesus and, 14 155 survivors of, 10-11,207, 224-25 Award for Excellence in Cultural in Latvia, 1,17,29,246-47, 253 Diplomacy (NCAFP), 140, 241-42 262
INDEX Berlin, Germany Babst, Natascha, 33 Backer, Sam, 151 Ban, Vladimir, 248,249 GDS relatives in, 23,70, 76-77,91,702,168-69,187 GDS reunites with mother in (1946), 4,73-79,706 Grunewald documentation Banuazizi, Ali, 243n7 Baran, Zeyno, 243n9 Bar Ilian, David, 242nl Barion, Hans, 158 center, 155 Hitler s office in, 76-77 Berlin, Isaiah, 155 bar mitzvah GDS and, 61, 88 Bernadotte, Folke, 87 Bernheim, Rachel Oestreicher, of GDS sons, 13, /27,219, 250 Barnard, Christiaan, 214 256-57n3 Betar (Brit Trumpeldor), 86-87 Barnett, A. Doak, 242n5 Barros, James (Jim), 151,172, Bettelheim, Bruno, 242nl Beutler, Lea, 47-48 Bialkin, Kenneth J., 137,243n6 Biden, Joseph R., Jr., 141 173-74,195 Barry, Bill, 228 Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 138,167 BBC, 46-47, 50 Bildner, Albert, 243n6 Binkovskis, Sergejs, 147 Bismarck, Otto von, 198 blacks/Africans City College Open Behemoth (Neumann), 153 Behind the Barbed Wire (Chabrier), 14,217-18 Behr, Marion, 256n2 Bellow, Saul, 242nl Admissions policy and, 203 discrimination in Israel and, Bendersky, Joseph W., 192,193 Bendrehmer, Selma, 71,76 95 discrimination in the U.S. Benjamin, Walter, 164 and, 96 Benois, Alexander, 166-67 Bergen-Belsen, Germany, 75, 80 Berger, Joseph, 205 in South African ghettos, 213 Blake, Robert, 243n9 Blank, Stephan, 243n9 Berkman, Dunia Rosovsky, 93-94 Blankenese Jewish childrens home (Hamburg, Germany), 71-76, Berkman, Nathan, 93-94 Berkman, Oka, 93-94 86 263
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR in Liban, 25 Blinken, Donald, 243n6 Blumberg, Bella, 47-48,255 Böckenförde, Ernst-Wolfgang, at wedding of GDS, 117,187 Bruskin, Eve (second cousin), 83, 158,160 Bogdanova, Rita Blumberg, 255 Bohne von Вoyens, Renate, 243n6 167 Bruskin, Nuta Wainstein (cousin), Bojarski, Ette, 103 103,167,188,256-57n3 in Connecticut, 83 Boucher, Richard, 243n9 Boulanger, George, 77 Braham, Randolph, 207 GDS letters to, 73 illness of Klara Schwab and, 184 Bremerhafen (Nazi ship), 56-58 Brennan, Donald D., 242nl in Libau, 25 at wedding of GDS, 117,187 Bruskin, Sam (second cousin), 83, Bresler, Szlamek, 71 Breznitz, Shlomo, 228 167 Bryza, Matthew, 243n9 Bub, Anna, 47 Brickey, John, 243nl0 Brik, Miss (governess in Eibau), 18,20,27,34 Bubi, Bubinka, see Schwab, Bernhard Boris (Bubi, brother) British Relief Unit, 71-72 Brod, Bronia, 255 Brod, Ivar, 246,255 Bukingolts, Sol N., 256-57n3 Burggraben death march, 62, 63 Bronx High School of Science, New York City, 216 Burghardt, Raymond, 242n5 Brown, Bernard E., 218,234-35, 242n2,243n6 Burns, R. Nicholas, 235 Brown, Eleanor, 218 Cakste elementary school, Libau, Browning, Christopher, 6n3 Browning School, New York City, 215-16 Latvia, 28-29, 33-34,36 Campbell, Kurt M., 242n5 CapArcona (ship), 65 Bruskin, Elie (cousin), 167,188 capos/Kapos, 52, 59,60,66,67 Carl Schmitt’s Critique of in Connecticut, 83 GDS letters to, 73 illness of Klara Schwab and, 184 Liberalism (McCormick), 193 Carnegie Reporter, 233 Carter, Jimmy, 10-11,12n6 264
INDEX “cousin,” 20,22 Chill, Emanuel, 204 China (People s Republic of Century Club (Purchase, New York), 172,200-201 Chabrier, Gwendolyn (Gwennie), 14,217-20 Challenge ofthe Exception, The China) Xavier Kinginthai Doshiang (GDS uncle) as envoy to, 22, (Schwab), 175-80,192-93 Chandler, Alice, 210 26,198 Forum on Asia Pacific Chao, Solan, 201 Security (FAPS) project Chaliapin, Feodor, 21-22,188 (NCAFP), 5,225,231-33 Chocolatesfor Breakfast (Moore), 164 Charap, Daniel, 243n9 Charney, Anna, 256-57n3 Charney, Samuel, 256-57n3 Chelkowski, Peter, 243n7 Chen, Shui-Bian, 232 Churbn Lettland (Kaufmann), 77, 245 Churchill, Winston, 153 Chernys, Steven, 243n6,243n9 childhood in Libau/Liepaja, City College comparison with Columbia Latvia, 17-29,31-34,35-39, University, 150-51 Henry Friedlander grievance proceedings, 206-8, 102,103 café life, 19-26, 33, 35 childhood war games and, 32, 40,44,48 custom clothing and shoes, 219nnl-2 GDS attendance and 22,33 education, 28-29,33-34,36 graduation from, 91-93, 96 GDS takes a semester family holidays in Riga, sabbatical in South Africa, 206,211-14 Latvia, 18-19,25,26-28, 30-31,33,34-35,203 family home, 17, 26,34, 36-37,247-48,256 Schwab household staff, GDS teaches M.A. course, 17-19,20,22-24,27,34,36 stamp collecting, 37,45,112 GDS teaching position in 206 GDS teaches remedial course, 205-6 History Department, 174, 183,188,196,203-10 Shirley Temple, as GDS 265
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR investigation of History George D. Schwab Fellowship Department, 208-9 Marshak administration, in American Foreign Policy, 241 Clark, Wesley K., 234 204-10,211 Open Admissions policy, 203-8 Clinton, Bill, 140,228,231 Cohen, Herman J., 235,237 College Entrance Examination Board, The, 197 politicization of History Department, 204-10,211 Collomb, Bertrand, 256 as the Poor Man’s Harvard, 203,211 City University of New York Collomb, Stephanie, 251,256 Columbia University comparison with City (CUNY) College, 150-51 Faculty Club, 173-74 City College, see City College Graduate Center, see City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center GDS accepted to Ph.D. program, 152-53 GDS completes first oral Hunter College, 197 City University of New York examination for Ph.D., 167, (CUNY) Graduate Center 173 GDS completes Ph.D. GDS applies to History Department, 206 GDS as director of program, 5,200-201 GDS dissertation on Carl Conference on History and Schmitt, 4,153-61,175-80, Politics, 223 192-93. see also Schmitt, Carl GDS meets French language GDS becomes Library Associate of Mina Rees Library (1999), 251-52 requirement at Alliance Française, Paris, 111, 158, GDS delivers lecture on Carl Schmitt, 206 161-65 GDS receives M.A. from, 110, GDS professorship, 5,210 151-52 GDS tutorial, 194 George D. Schwab Family GDS receives scholarship to, 96 GDS second dissertation Fund, Mina Rees Library, 252 266
INDEX Dawidowicz, Lucy, 207 Dayez, Georges and defense, 181,183-84, 195-98,200-201 GDS teaches Contemporary Civilization course, 173-74 collectors of works, 182-83, 197,218,256 GDS first exposure to works Clarence Schwab graduates from, 216 of, 164 meets Eleonora Schwab, 196 Claude Schwab graduates from, 216 Commission on the Holocaust, meets Schwab triplets, 217 New York City cocktail reception for, 201 10-11 communism, GDS antipathy Dean, Martin, 6n2,6n5 Deane, Herbert as GDS political science toward, 37-38, 85, 89-90, 161-62,221-22 adviser, 151-55,157,195-96 in GDS Carl Schmitt dissertation defense, 175-76, Concept ofthe Political, The (Schmitt), 193 Connorton, John V., Jr., 242n4, 243nl0 Constitutional Theory (Schmitt), 178-80 DeHooge, Linda, 226 Delury, John, 241 177 Cooley, Alexander, 243n9 Deng Xiaoping, 225 Denise (companion of GDS), Cornell Medical Center, 213 Cosa, Ralph, 242n5 Council on Foreign Relations, 162-63,165 Dennis, Myna Galgut, 214 Dergham, Raghida, 243n8 221,223 crematoria, 58, 63, 225 Cumming, Robert, 175-76 Destruction ofthe European Jews, The (Hilberg), 7-8 détente, 5,221-22,233-3 5 Deutsch, Howard, 118,211 Deutsch, Jessica Reichman, 118, Curtis, Michael, 242n2,243n6 cyber-security, 239 211,212 Daily Telegraph, 228 Daudiss, I., 246 Dhiagilev, Sergei, 166 DiCarlo, Rosemary, 242 Davis, Lisa, 125 Dictatorship (Schmitt), 176 Dankers, General, 68 267
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR home (Hamburg, Germany), Dietrich, Fritz, 49 Distel, Anne Dayez, 196,217,256 71-76, 86 at Cakste elementary school Dorbian, Hirsh, 71 Dorbian, Mrs., 73 (Libau, Latvia), 28-29, 33-34, 36 Doshiang, Hermine Jacobson Kinginthai (aunt), see Scher, at City College (New York Hermine Jacobson Kinginthai Doshiang (aunt) City), 91-93,96 at Columbia University (New York City), see Columbia Doshiang, Xavier Kinginthai (Dr. King Li, uncle) in Berlin, 70,76 University early struggles with, 28-29, 33-34,36,49-50,72,78,179 death (1935), 23,91 as envoy to Germany, 22,26, 198 Downing Street Declaration in Israel, 92-95,109 at New Utrecht High School (Brooklyn, New York), (1993), 227-30 Drath, Viola Herms, 243n6 84-91,707 at Schlachtensee DP camp Duke, Angier Biddle, 133,227, 228,234,240 (Germany), 77-79 sexual education, 21, 69-70 Duncker Humblot, 180 Duverger, Maurice, 162 Dwork, Deborah, 6nl Sorbonne French civilization course (Paris), 162 see also Zionist ideology/ Jewish state Eban, Abba, 136 Eiges, Dr. and Mrs. Anuschka, 93 Eiges, Gideon, 93 Eban, Suzy, 256n2 Ebenstein, William, 151,152 Edelstein, Julius, 210 education of GDS Eiges, Irit, 93 Eikenberry, Karl W, 242n5 Eisler, Fritz, 154,177,220-21 Alliance Française (Paris) Eleonora Schwab Library, Riga, 5, French language studies, 145,252,255,256-57n3 Elie Wiesel Award, 14,241 111, 158,161-65. see also languages and GDS Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, 224 at Blankense Jewish childrens 268
INDEX Elliott, Susan M., 242 Flynn, William J., 133,137, Ellis Island Medal of Honor, 241, 224-31 GDS first meets, 225 Initiative for Peace Award (NCAFP), 241 251 Eltahawy, Mona, 243n8 Engel, Arnold, 256-57n3 Errera, Phillipe, 243n6 as NCAFP chairman, 226-31 Ervine, David, 230 Everts, Steven, 243n6 in Northern Ireland Peace Expressen (Sweden), 246 Process, 5,226-31, 241 Ford, Gerald, 222 Faerber, Jewel, 256-57n3 Forum on Asia Pacific Security (FAPS) project (NCAFP), 5, Faerber, Joel, 256-57n3 Fakhry, Ghida, 243n8 225,231-33 Foss, Hinda, 54 Fanny (seamstress in Liban), 22 Feigelman, Chaim, 50 Feigenbaum, Evan, 243n9 Feigenbaum, Rachelka, 78 Fox, John J., 243n9 Freibergs, Imants, 255 Freidenreich, Feliks, 78 Friedgut, Jac, 222 Feiges, Asja, 105 Friedlander, Henry, 206-8, Feiges, Sascha, 20,33 219nnl-2,242nl Friedlender, Miss (English teacher Feigin, Gerta, 255,256-57n3 Fenia (laundry help in Libau), 23 Ferrarotti, Franco, 193 in Libau), 28 Friedman, Leon B., 256-57n3 Friedman, Marilyn (cousin), Fick, Nathaniel (Nathan), 241, 243nl0 256-57n3 Friedrich, Carl Joachim, 180 Finel-Honigman, Irene, 243n6 Finger, Seymour Maxwell, 242n3 Fink, Egon, 72 Gadol, Joan, 204 Galgut, Asia (aunt), 169 Galgut, Fanny Schwab (aunt), 57, Finkelstein, Miss (Brooklyn teacher), 85 Fischgrund, Susan Bloom, 256 169 Galgut, Henoch, 98 Fisher, Linda, 256-57n3 Fisher, Robert, 256-57n3 Florinsky, Michael, 153 Galgut, Lionel (Leiba) (uncle), 57, 98,169 269
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Goffin, Sherwood, 219,250 Galgut, Oscar, 212 gardening and GDS Goldberg, Eugenia, 56,61,69, in the Liban Jewish ghetto garden, 48,95 at Tel Yitzhak kibbutz, Israel, 75,94 Goldberg, Jule dog bites/leg injury, 63, 64, 66,67 in Israel, 94 in Lübeck, Germany, 75 as protector of GDS, 5, 94-95 Gardner, Richard N„ 243n6 Garvin, Lola, 145 gas chambers, 58, 63 Gaspari, Dr., 59 56-58,61-65,66-67,69 Goldberg, Michael, 94 Goldstein, Walter, 168 GDS. See Schwab, George David (GDS) Gelb, Renia, 151,168,216, golf, 172 256-57n3 Gelb, Victor, 151,168,216, Gorbachev, Mikhail, 225,233-35 Gratulnieks, Mr. (driver in Libau), 24 256-57n3 Genton, Joske, 71 Great Britain British Relief Unit, 71-72 George F. Kennan Award for GDS relatives in London, 57, Distinguished Public Service (NCAFP), 240 Georgetown Law School, Solan 73,99,165 Northern Ireland Peace Schwab graduates from, 216 Process and, 5,226-31,241 in World War II, 31,32,36, German culture {Kultur}, 18,19, 38,40 42, 53 Gerschkewitch clan, 199,200 Gigli, Beniamino, 77 Great War/World War I, 17,18 Greed, John R., 226 Greenberg, Rabbi Irving, 207-8 Gilles, Werner, 156,158-59 gin rummy, 84,167-68,182,217 Greenwood Press, 193-94 Grinberg, Mrs. Täubchen Taub, Ginsberg, Jamie K., 256-57n3 Glaser, Bonnie S., 242n5 glasnost, 225,233 Globke, Hans, 160 105 Grinberg, Salja, 105 Gross, Johannes, 158 Gluck, Sidney, 253-54 Grossman, Marsha Raticoff, 7-12 270
INDEX Groth, Alex, 151,168 Grünwald (Jewish capo), 60 Grynholc, Joseph (second cousin), 217,218 Hathaway, Melissa, 243nl0 Haykel, Bernard, 243nn7-8 Healy, Jon, 243nl0 Heberer, Patricia, 6nl Grynholc, Shulamit (second Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, cousin), 217,218,256 Gunzburg, Macha de, 151,168 Guo, Changlin, 231-32 161 Helman, Anuschka, 105 Helman, Mr., 105 Gurian, Walter, 159 Hentoff, Nat, 209 Hermine, Aunt, see Scher, Hermine Jacobson Kinginthai Doshiang (aunt) Guterres, Antonio, 242 Gutman, Herbert, 205,209,210 Gwan, Kim Kye, 233 Hernandez, Rhett A., 243nl0 Herz, John H., 242n2 Haas, David, 250,256-57n3 Haas, Pamela, 250, 256-57n3 Hessen, Mathilde Nieburg, Haas, Raymond, 255 Haas, Selwyn, 145,255 Haas, Susan, 250,256-57n3 166-67 Hessen, Vladimir, 166-67 Haffkrug (Germany) Latvian childrens home, 68 Hilaire, Christiane, 183 Hilberg, Raul, The Destruction of the European Jews, 7-8 Hilda (British Relief Unit), 71-72 Hilaire, Camille, 183 Haig, Alexander M., 223 Haley, Professor (City College), 92 Hammer, Gaby, 216 Hilfstein, Erna, 194,216 Hilfstein, Max, 216 Handke, Erich, 44,45 Hillerbrand, Hans, 206 Hannah (GDS companion), 184, 186 Himmler, Heinrich, 2-3, 68, 181-82,191 Hindenburg, Paul von, 70,176 Hanoar Hatzioni (Youth ofZion), 92-95 Hans J. Morgenthau Award (NCAFP), 239-40 Hirsch, Evelyn, 151 Harvard University, Clarence Hirschman, Mrs., 105 Hirschmann, Ira, 221 Hirschhorn, Ella, 256-57n3 Hirschman, Mr., 105 Schwab graduates from, 216 271
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Hitler, Adolf crematoria, 58, 63,225 gas chambers, 58,63 accession to power (1933), 156,220 Jewish children as target of annexes Austria (1938), 17-18 attempt to kill, 55 death, 64,77 Nazis, 2-3, 5 memoirs of survivors, 7-12, 13-14 declares war on the U.S. (1941), 46 8-11 war crimes trials, 44, 55-56 invades Poland, 31 liaison officer of, 181-82 see also Auschwitz-Birkenau, office in Berlin, 76-77 (1941-45); Nazis/Nazi Germany; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum neighborliness expectation vs., Poland; Nazi era and GDS push for mass murder of all Jews, 1,2-3,7 release from prison, 158 (Washington, D.C.) Holt, Blaine D„ 243n9 homes of GDS Greenwich Village basement Ribbentrop-Molotov Non aggression Pact with Stalin (1939), 31-32,37-38,40-41 Carl Schmitt and, 175 vow to avoid a two-front war, 38,40 flat, New York City, 168 Lincoln Towers apartments, NewYork City, 201-2, 210-11 Riverside Drive apartment, see also Holocaust; Nazis/Nazi Germany Hobbes, Thomas, 177,193-94, 220 NewYork City, 191,211 Holbrook, Edythe M., 239,241, 243nl0 Latvia, 17,26,34,36-37, 247-48,256 Schwab family forced Schwab apartment in Libau, Holbrook, Morris, 256-57n3 relocations in Libau, 36-39, Holbrook, Sarah, 256-57n3 Holocaust, 1,2-5,14 41-48,248 West 99th Street apartment, Bergen-Belsen, Germany, 75, 80 New York City, 166-68,170, bystander behavior in, 8-11 172-73,179 272
INDEX as subject of Behind the Barbed Wire (Chabrier), 14, honors and awards of GDS Elie Wiesel Award (2018), 14, 241 217-18 Zockele (documentary filmed in Latvia, 2018), 14 Hopkinson, William, 243n6 Ellis Island Medal of Honor (1998), 241,251 George D. Schwab Fellowship Horowitz, Floyd, 256-57n3 Horowitz, Frances Degen, 133, in American Foreign Policy (CUNY Graduate Center), 241 256-57n3 Hoveyda, Abbas, 236 George D. Schwab Foreign Hoveyda, Fereydoun, 235-37, 243n6 Policy Series (NCAFP), 241 Library Associate of the Mina Rees Library, CUNY Howe, Richard R., 238,243n6 Graduate Center (1999), 251-52 Hui, Mrs. Choe Son, 233 Humanitarian and Peace Award listing on donor wall of (NCAFP), 131,240 human rights, 225,236-37,240 Hume, John, 132,227-29,242n4 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Hunt, David P., 243nl0 (Washington, D.C.), 255 oral history videotape in the Hunter, Robert, 235 Hüsmert, Ernst, 158,159, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.), 181-82,196 Hussein, King ofJordan, 135 5,14 Order of Three Stars (2002, Huttenbach, Henry, 204-5,209 Latvia), 241 île de France (ship), 155 (Latvian) Presidents Commission of International Historians membership, Initiative for Peace Award/ William J. Flynn Initiative for Peace Award (NCAFP), 241 252-53 Sholom Aleichem Foundation International Herald Tribune, 220 Iran, 235-37 Irani, K. D„ 92 Irgun Zvai Leumi (Israel), 86 vice presidency (1998), 251, 253-54 speaking engagements, 14 273
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Irish Republican Army (IRA), Jahoda, Fritz, 91-92 227-31 Isaac, Ephraim, 243n6 Janowsky, Oscar, 92 Jebb, Gladwyn, 89 Isaac, Eric, 242nl Isaac, Rael Jean, 242n2 Islamic fundamentalism, 235-37 Jelinek, Fred, 161 Jesus, anti-Semitism and, 14 Jevelson, Abrascha, 169,171-72, Israel declaration of independence 217 Jevelson, Etel, 169,217 Jevelson, Lydia Feiges, 169,217 (1948), 88 GDS studies in, 92-95,109 Islamic fundamentalism and, Jevelson, Zina, 33,169,171,217 Jewish Brigade, 72-76, 86-89 Jewish Survivors of Latvia, 83-84, 235-37 see also Zionist ideology/ Jewish state Jabotinsky, Zev, 85 112,142-45,168,244-45, 248-50 Jiang Zemin, 135,231-32 Joffe, Ann Galgut (second cousin), 212-14 Joffe, Harry (second cousin), Jacobs, Andrew C., 256-57n3 Jacobson, Grischa, 248-49 Jacobson, Isidor (uncle), 26, 33, 212-14 Joffe, Henry, 214 Joffe, Lorna, 214 35,103 Jacobson, Jacob (grandfather), 100 Joint Distribution Committee (Joint), 71-75,79-80,85 Israelit, Zalman, 45,49 Ivanova, Ilana Zivcon, 145,255 Josephson, Murray, 88-89 Judy (GDS companion), 96 Jacobson, Leni (aunt), 26,33,35, Jule. see Goldberg, Jule 103 Jacobson, Rita (aunt), 17-18,23, Jünger, Ernst, 163 Jurkans, Janis, 246 70,103 Jacobson, Rosa Vovsi (second cousin), 96 Kaganski, Menash (Monta), 45, Jacobson, Slova Gerschkewitsch (grandmother), 100 Jacquet, J. J., 166 49 Kahn, Edith, 78,106 Kahn, Shoshana, 248-49 274
INDEX Kahn family, 78,106 (NCAFP), 240 as Honorary Chairman of Kaiser, Joseph, 158 NCAFP, 240 Kaiserwald, Latvia GDS relatives living in, 27,30, Memoirs, 1925-1950,25 Kennedy, Edward, 228 33,247 GDS returns to (1990), 247 Kennedy, Ellen, 192-93 Kerr, Arnold, 78 Kerscher, Franz, 48-49 Kaiserwald concentration camp, 50-54 Kessel family, 45-46,48. see also Sobotka, Mia Kessel Schwab Kanarek, Adam, 96,151,164,168 Kangas, Roger, 243n9 Kapos/capos, 52, 59,60, 66,67 Kastrup, Dieter, 243n6 (sister-in-law) Khan, Muktedar, 243n8 Kharkov, Igor, 243nl0 Kinnor Choir (Latvia), 246,249 Kirchheimer, Otto Katz, Mark N„ 243n9 Katz, Shmuel (Muhi), 242nl Kaufman, Bel, 251, 253-54 Kaufman, Eve (cousin), 256-57n3 Kaufman, Howard, 256-57n3 death, 195-96 GDS dissertation on Carl Schmitt and, 175-80 Kaufman, Hugo, 243n6 Kaufmann, Max, 112,168,248 GDS second dissertation and, 181,183-84 Carl Schmitt breaks with, Churbn Lettland, 77,245 Kavanagh, Camino, 243nl0 Kazakhstan project (NCAFP), 178-79,180 Carl Schmitt influence on, 237-39 Kellogg, Francis L., 131,225-26 Kellogg, Mercedes, 225-26 Kendziorek, Kurt (Jewish capo), 159,175, 220 Kissinger, Henry A., 134,208, 231,232-33,240 60,67 Kennan, George E, 134 in American Legation, Riga, Klippstein, Daniel M., 243n9 Köhler, Reichsbahn Commandant, 55 Kohn, Hans, 91, 92 Kojève, Alexandre, 163-64 25 containment policy, 221,240 George F. Kennan Award for Kon, Selma, 256-57n3 Konigsberg, Madeline, 243n6 Distinguished Public Service 275
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR deportations to Russia, 38-39 GDS annual trips to, 252, Koo Chen-fu, 232 Kopp, Stephanie, 226 Koster, Donald, 209 Kram, Leo, 248 255-56 GDS receives Order of Three Krebsbach, Eduard, 55 Kriegsmarine (Navy), in Libau, Stars (2002), 241 GDS returns to (1990), 5,14, 42-43 Kronberg, Mrs., 45,48-50, 244,245-50 German occupation in World 57-58,248 Krupnikov, Gregory, 142,246, War 1,18 Jewish Survivors of Latvia, 83-84,112,142-45,168, 249,256-57n3 Kügler, Wolfgang, 45,49,248 244-45,248-50 NATO and, 5,247 Nazi occupation ends, 65 President’s Commission of Kurtz, Efrem (Eddie), 182 LaFeber, Walter, 242n3 Lake, Tony, 228 Laks, Renia, 78,79-80,106 International Historians, 252-53 Skede/Skede Memorial, 46, languages and GDS English, 28 French, 111, 158,161-65,187 50,143,144,248 Soviet occupation (1940), German, 28,35,37,49-50, 75,77-78,167,187,192-94, 31-32,34-39 strategic location of, 17,41 249 Hebrew, 72-76,78,92-95 see also Kaiserwald, Latvia; Libau/Liepaja, Latvia; Nazi era and GDS (1941-45); Riga, Latvia Lau, Barbara (cousin) education of Schwab children Latvian, 28, 29, 68 Russian, 28,35,37,167,187 Yiddish, 49-50,53,69,75,249 LaPalombara, Joseph, 243n6 and, 256n2 Eleonora Schwab Library Laski, Harold, 151 Latter, Mrs., 105 Latvia (Riga) and, 256-57n3 in Libau, Latvia, 145,146 in Megève, France, 121 anti-Semitism in, 1,17,29, 246-47,253 21G
INDEX in Munich, 120,197,217, (Schmitt), 193-94,220 Levin, Aaron (cousin), 124,213, 216 218,219n3,252,256 Lau, James (Jimmy, cousin) childhood war games and, 32, 40,44 Levin, Fanny, 213 Levin, Lenore Gladstone (cousin), Eleonora Schwab Library 124,216 Levinsons, Hessy, 151 Lewin, Itzke, 78 Lewis, James A., 243nl0 (Riga) and, 256-57n3 in Libau, Latvia, 32,146 in Megève, France, 121 Lhote, André, 197 Libau/Liepaja, Latvia in Munich, 120,197,217, 218,219n3,252,256 Lauder, Jo Carole, 137 café life in, 19-26, 33, 35 GDS childhood in. see childhood in Libau/Liepaja, Award for Excellence in Cultural Diplomacy (NCAFP), 740,241-42 Latvia GDS returns to (1990), 5,14, Lauder, Ronald, 256 Lay, Nancy, 206 “Left-Wing” Communism (Lenin), 247-50 Jewish ghetto, 45,48-50,248 lighthouse/Lighthouse 153,158 Legality and Legitimacy Memorial, 43-44,143,248 mass slaughter at Skede (Schmitt), 176-77 Leinwand, Fanny, 246 (1941), 46, 50,143,144,TA* Nazi occupation (1941), 2, Leinwand, Michael, 246 Leni (aunt), see Jacobson, Leni 3-5,41-50. see also Nazi era and GDS (1941-45) Schwab family forced relocations, 36-39,41-48, (aunt) Lenin, Vladimir, 37,162 “Left-Wing” Communism, 153,158 Lenson, Michael, 166 248 Schwab family home, 17,26, 34,36-37,247-48,256 Soviet attack on Germany Lerman, Chris, 79-80,106 Lerman, Miles, 79-80,106 Leviathan in the State Theory (1941), 40-41 ofThomas Hobbes, The ХП
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Soviet occupation (1940), Manevich, Samuel, 256-57n3 Manji, Irshad, 243n8 31-32,34-39 strategic location of, 17,41 lice/delousing, 52, 54, 58, 60, 62 Licht, Barney (cousin), 81 Mann, Thomas, 151 Mao Zedong, 225 Margo lick, David, 256-57n3 Maria (housekeeper), 184,185 Licht, Bernard (second cousin), 81 Licht, Ellen Schwab (cousin), 81, Marie (fathers nurse in Libau), 21,36 167,184 Lichtenthal, Roma, 78 Marshak, Robert E., 204-10,211 Martinsson, Mrs. Ragnar, 114 lighthouse/Lighthouse Memorial, Libau/Liepaja, 43-44,143, Masson, Philippe, 256 Mastny, Vojtech, 242nn2-3 Matthaeus, Juergen, 6n3 248 Lincoln Square Synagogue, New Mau, David, 105 York City, 215,219,250 Lindley-French, Julian, 243n6 Mau, Esja, 105 Maya (GDS companion), 110, Lord, Winston, 242n5 Lotrionte, Catherine, 243nl0 152 McCormick, John P., 193 Lotta (Swedish housekeeper), 211 Lougee, Robert, 192 McCrea, William, 229 Lower, Wendy, 1-6,14 Ludzin family, 48 ME Agentur, 46-47, 50 Meilach, Edythe, 117,187,189 Luftwaffe (Air Force), 44 Meilach, Isac, 777,187 Memoirs, 1925-1950 (Kennan), McMahon, Edwina, 227 Lycée Français de New York, 120, 215,216,217 25 Mendelssohn family, 71 Ma, Ying-Jeou, 139,232 Mahallati, Mohammad Ja’afar, 243n8 Mendes-France, Pierre, 163 Merkel, Daniel, 243n9 Mia. see Sobotka, Mia Kessel Major, John, 227,229 mammy, mamma, mammuly, Schwab (sister-in-law) Michlic, Joanna Beata, 6nn3-4 Middle East project (NCAFP), maminka. see Schwab, Klara Jacobson (mother) 235-37 278
INDEX Mintz, Dr. (Brooklyn teacher), Morris, Ann Marie, 256n2 84-85 Mintz, Dr. (Riga), 53 Morrissey, Hatice U., 241,243n6 Mosely, Philip E„ 195-96,198, Miriam (GDS companion), 96 MIT Press, 193 200 Moyne, Lord, 87 Mundheim, Robert, 96 Mitterand, François, 224 Musli, Muhammad, 243n7 Mussolini, Benito, 23, 50,182 Mizroch, Bessie, 213 Mizroch, Maschinka, 94 Mizroch, Owsej, 94 Mohler, Armin, 163-64 Mutual of America, 224-27 Molander, Jan (brother-in-law), Najar, Ginger Runes, 256n2 114,187,217 Molander, Nina (niece), 217 Molander, Robert (nephew), 217 Molander, Ruth Storch (sister-in- Nammack, Amy, 211,216-17 National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP), law) 130-41,220-43 Africa program, 237 illness of, 191 Schwab triplets and, 202,217 American Foreign Policy Interests (magazine), 237,238 American Foreign Policy in Stockholm, 114,187,217 Molyneaux, James, 227 Moore, Pamela, 111, 164,165 Newsletter, 222-23,242n2, 246-47 Angier Biddle Duke Lecture, Moran, Thomas J., 133,226,230 Morgenthau, Hans J., 130,242n3 as chairman of NCAFP, 234,240 Award for Excellence in Cultural Diplomacy and International Engagement, 740,241-42 220-23,235 as co-founder of NCAFP, 220-22 death (1980), 220-21,239-40 Hans J. Morgenthau Award board members, 222,224, (NCAFP), 239-40 242nl conference on “Facing the legacy of, 226 21st Century” (1988), 14, Politics Among Nations, 220 Carl Schmitt and, 220-21 224-25 cyber-security project, 239 279
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR detente policy and, 5,221-22, Track 1%/Track II diplomacy 233-35 Forum on Asia Pacific Security (FAPS) project, 5, and, 5,231-33,242n5 21st Century Leaders Council, 241 225,231-33 founding of, 5,220-22 GDS as co-founder, 5, U.S.-China Relations and the Question of Taiwan, 5,225, 231-33 Young Leader Award, 241 220-22 GDS as member of Board of Directors, 222 GDS as president, 5,223,226, NATO Baltic States and, 5,247 Soviet détente policy and, 239,241-42,256 GDS as senior vice president, 222-23,233-35 Nazi era and GDS (1941-45), 245 GDS as vice president, 253 George D. Schwab Foreign Policy Series, 241 40-65 aboard the Bremerhafen (Nazi ship), 56-58 George F. Kennan Award for brother’s death in Rumbula/ Bikerniek forest, 57,245,246, anti-Semitism and, 47 Distinguished Public Service, 240 249 Burggraben death march, 62, Hans J. Morgenthau Award, 239-40 63 end of Latvia occupation, 65 evacuation by boat to Danzig, Humanitarian and Peace Award, 131,240 Initiative for Peace Award/ 63-64 fathers beating, arrest, and murder at the Libau William J. Flynn Initiative for Peace Award, 241 Kazakhstan project, 237-39 Middle East project, 235-37 Northern Ireland Peace lighthouse, 3,43-44,47,143, Process, 5,226-31,241 Soviet Union and détente 5,14,244,245-50 Jule Goldberg as protector of project, 222-25,233-35 GDS, 5,56-58,61-65 245,248 GDS returns to Latvia (1990), 280
INDEX Nazis/Nazi Germany at Kaiserwald concentration camp, 50-54 declaration of war on the U.S. mass slaughter at Skede (1941), 46 (1941), 46, 50,743, 744,248 GDS studies of Carl Schmitt, Nazi occupation of Libau, 2, 151-52,153-61 3-5,41-50 Great Britain and France reconnects with mother declare war on (1939), 31 aboard the Bremerhafen (Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union ship), 57-58 (1941), 2-3,38 at Reichsbahn Kasernierung invasions and occupations of (railroad system work camp), 1939,2,31,32,41-42 54-56 Jewish children as target of, 1, Schutzpolizei (Schupo; 2-3,4,7 Security Police) and, 42-43 Nuremberg Laws (1935), 160 Schutzstaffel (SS) and, 49, 50, occupation of Libau/Liepaja, 52,54,58-64,66 Latvia (1941), 2, 3-5,41-50. Schwab family forced see also Nazi era and GDS relocations in Libau, 36-39, (1941-45) 41-48,248 postwar Übermenschen and, Schwab family valuables and, 67-68,77 34,42-43,48-50,54 Ribbentrop-Molotov Non separation from brother, aggression Pact with Stalin Boris, 55-56 (1939), 31-32,37-38,40-41 Sicherheitsdienst (SD, Security Carl Schmitt and, 4,159,160, Service) and, 42-46,48-50, 177 57-58 Das Schwarze Korps (The Stutthof extermination camp/ Black Corps, SS newspaper), satellite camp, 4, 58-63,225 159-60 work detail as electrician, 55 Soviet Union attacks work detail as messenger boy, 49 Germany (1941), 40-41 work detail in the Jewish war crimes trials, 44, 55-56 ghetto garden, 48 see also Hitler, Adolf; see also Nazis/Nazi Germany Holocaust 281
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Carl Schmitt in. see Schmitt, NCAFP. see National Committee on American Foreign Policy Carl GDS and Klara Schwab arrive (NCAFP) Nenoff, Lydia, 117,187-88 Nenoff, Vladimir (Wlado) in, 80-83 GDS at New Utrecht High GDS academic career and, School, Brooklyn, 84-91,107 GDS homes in. see homes of 168,195 illness of Klara Schwab and, 184 GDS Latvian Jewish survivors in, as physician, 96,184 83-84,112,142-45,168, tennis and, 217 at wedding of GDS, 117, 244-45,248-50 Anya Storch (mother-in-law) 187-88 visits, 189-91,215 New York Post, 205 New York Times, 205,210 Neumann, Franz, 150-51,152, 153,159,177,180,220 Neustadt, Ernst, 91 Nimetz, Matthew, 243n9 Neustadt, Tekla Remigolski, 91 New Left, at City College, 204-5 9/11 terrorist attacks, 235 Nixon, Richard, 130 New Utrecht High School, Nobel Prizes/Nobel laureates, 14, Brooklyn, 84-91,107 New York City 138,153,224,225,244,245 Noland, Aaron, 92 Northern Ireland Peace Process academic career of GDS at City College, see City College at Columbia University, see (NCAFP), 5,226-31,241 Nuremberg Laws (1935), 160 Nuta. see Bruskin, Nuta Wainstein (cousin) Columbia University at CUNY, see City University of New York (CUNY) Nye, Joseph S., Jr., 243nl0 Graduate Center and the National Committee Obama, Barack, 141 on American Foreign Policy. Obama, Michelle, 141 Odlozilik, Otakar, 207 see National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) One China concept, 232 open society bloc concept, 223,235 282
INDEX opera, 33,78-79,161-62,168, Plottel, Jeanine Parisier, 151,168, 187,197,199 ORBIS, 198 Order of Three Stars (Latvia), 241 Ordway, John M., 243n9 172,251-52,256n2 Plottel, Roland, 151,168,172 poker, 18, 67 Poland Bergen-Belsen (Germany), Origins of Totalitarianism 75, 80 famine-related deaths in Jewish ghettos, 2,6n2 (Arendt), 153 Ostwald, Martin, 152-53 Oxford University, 14 Ozick, Cynthia, 8,12nnl-2 Nazi occupation of (1939), 2,31 Soviet invasion of (1939), 31 Stutthof extermination camp/ Paal, Douglas H., 242n5 Pach, Walter, 91-92 satellite camps, 4,58-63,225 see also Auschwitz-Birkenau, Page, Stanley, 204-5,209 Paisley, Ian, 133,227,229-30 papa, papinka. see Schwab, Arkady Jacob Aron (father) Poland Political Theology (Schmitt), 193 Partnership for Peace (PfP), 223 Politics Among Nations Paula (GDS companion), 184 Pearl Harbor (1941), 46 (Morgenthau), 220 postwar period and GDS aboard S.S. Marine Perch Percopo, Christa, 243n6 perestroika, 225,233 Peters, Joan, 142,251,253,254 Peter the Great (film), 37 (troop carrier) to the U.S., 79-80,106 arrival in New York City, Petraeus, David, 137 80-81, 82-83. see also New York City at Blankenese Jewish childrens home (Hamburg, Pham, Peter, 237 Phares, Amir, 243n7 Phillips, Ann, 243n6,256-57n3 Piccone, Paul, 194 Pickering, Thomas R., 234,240 Germany), 71-76, 86 Jule Goldberg as protector of Pincus, Rizel, (GDS companion), 168 GDS, 66-67,69 at Haffkrug Latvian children s home (Germany), 68 Platt, Nicholas, 242n5 283
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR liberation and recovery Ranke, Leopold von, 157-58 in Neustadt in Holstein, Germany, 65-70 reunites with mother in Rapina, Ester, 246,249 Ratz, Jac, 248 Germany (1946), 4,73-79, Redlich, Rolf, 71 Regina (housekeeper), 202,211 RCA, 172 105,106 at Schlachtensee DP camp Reichlin, Henry, 171,182 Reichman, Jessica, see Deutsch, Jessica Reichman (Germany), 77-79 travel to the U.S., 79-81 visits Bergen-Belsen DP camp, Reichman, Myrone, 212 Reichman, Pete, 201-2,212-14 80 Reichman, Rhoda Galgut Potemkin (film), 37 Powell, Colin L., 136 (cousin), 201-2,212-14 Reichsbahn (German railroad Preuss, Hugo, 154,177 Pringsheim, Erika (godchild), 195 system), 53-62 Reichsbahn Kasernierung (railroad Pringsheim, Klaus, 151,168,172, system Nazi work camp), 53, 195 Prinz, Rabbi Joachim, 116,117,187 54-56,57,66 Rendu, Denise (GDS Proshansky, Harold, 124,206 prostitution, 69-70,161 Putin, Vladimir, 235 companion), 111, 162-63, 165 Revere, Evans, 242n5 Revista de Ciencias SocialesValparaiso (Chile), 193 Puzzo, Dante, 204 Quaritsch, Helmut, 158 Reynolds, Albert, 227,229 Rabinovich, Jascha, 105 Rabinovich, Max, 21-22,188 Rabinovich, Minna (second cousin), 21-22 Ri, Gun, 233 Ribbentrop-Molotov Non aggression Pact with Stalin (1939), 31-32,37-38,40-41 Raduege, Harry D., 243nl0 Rice, Donald S., 238,243n6,256, Raines, Tsilia, 252 Rakhman, Liuba, 256-57n3 Ramo, Joshua Cooper, 241 256-57n3 Rice, Edgenie, 256-57n3 Richardson, John B., 243n6 284
INDEX Riga, Latvia annual commemorative Eleonora Schwab Library, ceremonies (July 4), 5 Riga and, 255,256-57n3 European travel with GDS, Betar (Brit Trumpeldor) founding in, 86 138,145,147,255-56 first meets GDS, 254 café life in, 25-26,27-28 described, 25 NCAFP and, 5,137,225, 255-56 Eleonora Schwab Library, 5, Russia, deportation of 145,252,255,256-57n3 GDS returns to (1990), 5,14, Latvians to, 38-39 support for charities in Latvia, 142-45,244,245-47 Schwab family holidays in, 255 and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.), 18-19,25,26-28,30-31,33, 254 34-35,103 Ripp, Eleanor, 256n2 Robbins, Tobey, 146,254-55 Robinson, Julia Gindiga, 248, 254,256n2 Riskin, Rabbi Shlomo, 219,250 Rita (aunt), see Jacobson, Rita Robinson, Peter, 229,230 (aunt) Rockefeller, David, 134 Rockefeller, Happy, 137 Rockefeller Foundation, 177 Rittner, Carol (Sister Carol, Sister ofMercy), 7-12,224-26, 228,251,256n2 Robbins, Harvest, 146,254-55 Robbins, Lester, 254 Rogers, Lindsay, 153,173,179 Rohozinski, Rafal, 243nl0 romantic interests/companions of Robbins, Lew, 197 Robbins, Lillian, 197,256n2 Robbins, Page Sargisson, 146, GDS Macha de Gunzburg (Columbia University), 151, 168 254-55 Robbins, Peter, 146,254-55 Robbins, Sheila Johnson Hannah, 184,186 Judy, 96 children and grandchildren, Miriam, 96 246,254-55 death (2020), 254-5 5 described, 254 niece of Karl Wolff (SS general), 181-82 285
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Paula, 184 Denise Rendu (Paris), Rosovsky, Selig, 83-84,167 Rosovsky, Sonia, 83-84,167 162-63,165 Veltina (Latvian grade-school Ross, Alexander J„ 256-57n3 Rossiter, Clinton, 152 Rostropovich, Mstislav, 167 classmate), 29,33,47 Maya Yardney (Columbia University), 110,152 Roth, John К., 9,12n5 Rottenberg, Reba 1,256-57n3 Rotunda, Donald, 242n2 roulette, 182,188 Rudolf, Edith, 137,256,256n2 Rudolf, William M., 137,243n6, see also Robbins, Sheila Johnson; Schwab, Eleonora Storch (wife) Romm, Fanny Galgut, 98 Romm, Herman, 98 243nl0,256 Romm, Sima, 98 Rosen, Edward, 92,174,179,195, Russell, Daniel, 243n9 Russia, deportation of Latvians to, 204-5,209 Rosenbaum, Charlotte, 71,76 38-39 Rüstow, Dankwart A., 195-96, Rosengarten, Betty Feiges, 167 Rosensaft, Yosele, 75 Rosenstreich, Bari, 146 242nn2-3 Rustow, Margrit, 256-57n3 Rutgers University Press, 193 Rybak, Tunia, 78 Rosenstreich, Lori, 146 Rosenstreich, Marjorie, 146 Rywkin, Michael, 151,238, Rosenwald, Alice, 171,172 242n2,243n6 Rosenwald, Elizabeth, 171-73 Rosenwald, Mary Kurtz, 169, Sachs, Marcus, 243nl0 Rosenwald, William (Bill), 169, Sacks, Sophie, 48 Saideman, Beulah, 256-57n3 Saideman, Lewis, 200 171-73 Rosovsky, Alex, 84 Saideman, Mara, 200 Saideman, Nina Rosenwald, Rosovsky, Boris, 84,167 172-73,182-83,187 Saideman, Reuben, 256-57n3 Saideman, Rochelle Nitzberg, 171-73,183 Rosenwald, Nina, 171-73,243n6 Rosovsky, Fira, 84,167,199 Rosovsky, Henry, 84 Rosovsky, Olga, 84,151 197,200,256n2,256-57n3 286
INDEX Schalit, Betty, 26, 51 Saideman, Sanford (Sandy) Century Club (Purchase, NY) and, 200-201 Scharia, David, 243nl0 Scher, Alexander, 155 Scher, Hermine Jacobson children, 200 divorce with Nina, 197 Eleonora Schwab Library, Kinginthai Doshiang (aunt) Riga and, 256-57n3 in Europe, 142,182-83,197, 200-201 first meets GDS at camp Berkshire Pines, 96 168-69,187 death of husband, Xavier in Berlin, 23,70,76,91,102, Kinginthai Doshiang (1935), 23, 91 diplomatic passport, 22-23, first meets Eleonora Storch, 57,198 as Hindenburg s “Garbo,” 70, 187 GDS academic career and, 102 in Libau, 22-23 marries Leo Scher, 168 168,179,195,209 meets and marries Rochelle Nitzberg, 197,200 meets and marries Nina in Moscow and Leningrad, 198-200 Rosenwald, 172-73 roulette and, 182,188 reconnects with sister, Klara Schwab, 168-70 in Riga, 26,27,30-31,33, 34-35,51,203,198,245-46, at wedding of GDS, 117,187 Saideman, Seth (godchild), 200 Samuelson, Arthur, 90 Samuelson, Gerri, 81, 82-83,90, 247 Scher, Leo (uncle), 168,198-200 Scher, Rosa Berlin, 155 167 Samuelson, Leo, 81, 82-83,90 Schiff, Gaby, 224 Schifftan, Karl (uncle), 27,70 Sandy, see Saideman, Sanford (Sandy) Sanger, David E., 243nl0 Sarnoff, David, 172 Sauer, Albert, 54 Schifftan, Marta (grandaunt), 27, 30-31,76,103 Schifftan, Tanya Jacobson (aunt) home in Berlin, 70,76 Scalapino, Robert A., 242n5 Schain, Martin, 243n6 home in Kaiserwald, 27,247 home in Riga, 27,30-31, 51 287
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR as subject of GDS Columbia Schlachtensee DP camp, Germany, 77-79 Schlachter, Mona, 142, 251, University Masters degree essay, 151-52 as subject of GDS Columbia 256n2,256-57n3 Schleicher, Kurt von, 178 Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., 228, University Ph.D. dissertation, 4,153-61,175-80,183 wedding of daughter, Anima, 242nn2-3 Schmitt, Anima, 160-61,162-63 Schmitt, Carl, 151-61 160-61,162-63 works anti-Semitism and, 151-52, The Concept ofthe Political 154-55,157,160,175,177, 192,220-21 breaks with Otto (trans, by GDS), 193 Constitutional Theory (1928), 177 Dictatorship (1921), 176 Kirchheimer, 178-79,180 GDS delivers lecture at City University of New York Graduate Center, 206 GDS translates and publishes, 192-94 Legality and. Legitimacy GDS dissertation defense, (1932), 176-77 175-80 GDS meets intellectual The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes, (trans, by GDS), 193-94,220 colleagues of, 158-59, 163-64 Political Theology (trans, by GDS publishes The Challenge GDS), 193 Verfassungslehre (1928), 220-21 ofthe Exception (first and second editions) on, 192-93 GDS visits in Plettenberg, Schneider, Gertrude, 55-56,249 Schnur, Roman, 158,180 Schoenberger, Ida Firkser Schwab Germany, 154-61,169,173, 196 (aunt) illness of Klara Schwab, 184 meets Eleonora Schwab, 196 Hans J. Morgenthau and, Schwab family in New York 220-21 City and, 80-81,82-83,90, 108,167 Schoenberger, Rabbi, 81,84, 91 Nazis/Nazi Germany and, 4, 159,160,177 288
INDEX Scholem, Gershom, 164 death in Rumbula/Bikerniek Schulman, Roza, 105 Schutzpolizei (Schupo; Security forest, 57,245,246,249 at Kaiserwald concentration Police), 42-43 Schutzstaffel (SS), 49, 50,52,54, 58—64,66 camp, 50-53 in Libau/Liepaja, 101,102 love of tennis, 18,24,25,248 Schwab, Adrian (son), 201 marries Mia Kessel, 45. see also Sobotka, Mia Kessel Schwab Schwab, Amalia (cousin), 165 Schwab, Amalia Galgut (grandmother), 98,148 (sister-in-law) Nazi invasion of Libau (1941) Schwab, Arkady Jacob Aron (father) and, 41 in Nazi work crews, 43,44, 55 at Reichsbahn Kasernierung (railroad system work camp), beating, arrest, and murder by Nazis, 3,43-44,47,143,245, 248 as first in Latvia to treat diabetes with insulin, 18 53, 54-55,57 in Riga, 104 as stamp collector, 37,45,112 as gastroenterologist in Libau, struggles in school, 28 Schwab, Clarence (son), 117-22, 18,21,33-36 German Kultur (culture) and, 127 Bar Mitzvah (1982), 13,121, 18,19,42, 53 in Libau/Liepaja, 17-18, 98, 219,250 birth, 117,201-2 children, 251 101,105 as physician in the Imperial death of mother, Eleonora, Russian Army, 34,99 Soviet deportations and, 38 250-51 education, 120,122,215-16, wealth of father, David, 34, 38 Schwab, Ava Eleana 250 at Ellis Island Medal of Honor (granddaughter), 13,129,251 Schwab, Bernard (cousin), 165 ceremony for GDS, 251 Schwab, Bernhard (uncle), 80 Schwab, Bernhard Boris (Bubi, brother) family travel with parents, 118-21,211-18 marries Pamela Haas, 125,251 289
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Examination Board, 197 Schwab, Claude (son), 117-23,127 Bar Mitzvah (1982), 13,121, death (1998), 250-51 described, 186,187 Eleonora Schwab Library, 219,250 birth, 117,201-2 children, 13,128,129,251 death of mother, Eleonora, Riga, 5,145,252,255, 256-57n3 engagement to GDS, 113, 250-51 education, 120,122,215-16, 114,187 enrolls at Hunter College, 197 family holidays and 250 at Eleonora Schwab Library dedication (2001), Riga, 252 celebrations, 121,125-26, family travels with parents, 219,250,251 family vacations and travel, 118-21,211-18 marries Diana Han, 126,251 Schwab, David (cousin), 165 118-21,211-18 first meets GDS, 185-86 Schwab, David Hirsch Israel (grandfather), 98 grave in Libau/Liepaja, 148, and George D. Schwab Family Fund, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, 252 149 wealth of, 34,38 Schwab, Diana Han (daughter-in- marries GDS, 116,117, 187-89 NCAFP and, 134 at reunion of Latvian Jews in law), 126,251 Riga (1993), 142,248-50 South African sabbatical trip, Schwab, Eleonora Cara (Ellie, granddaughter), 13,127,251 Schwab, Eleonora Storch (wife) birth and childhood in Riga, 211-14 in Stockholm, 114,214-15 Storch family dynamics Latvia, 249 cancer diagnosis and and, 189-91,199,214-15, treatment, 215,250 children, see Schwab, Clarence 250-51 Schwab, Erna Taub (aunt), 100 Schwab, Esther (cousin), 256- (son); Schwab, Claude (son); Schwab, Solan (son) 57n3 Schwab, Fanny (aunt), 98 at The College Entrance 290
INDEX Schwab, George David (GDS) academic career death of wife, Eleonora, 250-51 education, see education of GDS at City College, see City College at Columbia University, see Columbia University family holidays and celebrations, 121,125-26, at CUNY, see City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center 219,250,251 family portrait, 127 family vacations and travel, and the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. 111,118-21,211-18 see National Committee on grandchildren, 13,127-29, American Foreign Policy 251 health issues, 53-55,67,74 homes of. see homes of GDS honors and awards, see honors (NCAFP) Carl Schmitt in. see Schmitt, Carl antipathy toward and awards of GDS languages of. see languages communism, 37-38, 85, 89-90,161-62,221-22 and GDS meets and marries Eleonora birth in Libau, Latvia (1931), 1,247-48 Storch, see Schwab, Eleonora Storch (wife) childhood, see childhood in Libau/Liepaja, Latvia meets Sheila Johnson Robbins, 254. see also Robbins, Sheila Johnson children, see Schwab, Clarence (son); Schwab, Claude (son); Schwab, Solan (son) death of brother, Boris, 57, music and, 18,27-28, 32,33, 34,61,76-79,91-92 in Nazi era. see Nazi era and 245,246,249 death of companion, Sheila GDS (1941-45) in New York City, see New York City Johnson Robbins, 254-55 death of father, Arkady, 3, 43-44,47,243,245,248 death of mother, Klara, 184, 188 postwar period, see postwar period and GDS romantic interests and 291
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR companions, see romantic at Kaiserwald concentration camp, 50-54 interests/companions of GDS as stamp collector, 37 summer camps, 85-86,96 in Libau/Liepaja, 17-29,101, 102,105 Nazi-era work assignments, 44-45,48-50,54,57-58, swimming/lifeguard skills, 19, 96-97,220,172 tennis and, 18,24,200-201, 248 248 in New York City, 108,110, 112 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.) and. postwar travels, 111 as professional cellist, 27-28, 34,170 see United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.) Schwab, Harry (cousin), 81,167, 184 Schwab, Jonah Eric (grandson), reconnects with sister, Hermine, 168-70 reunites with GDS in Germany (1946), 4,73-79, 105,106 13,227,251 Schwab, Klara Jacobson (mother) aboard 8.8. Marine Perch in Riga, 18-19,25, 26-28, 103 tennis and, 18,169,248 West 99th Street apartment, (troop carrier) to the U.S., 79-80,106 aboard the Bremerhafen (Nazi ship), 57-58 New York City, 166-68,170, arrival in New York City, 172-73,179 Schwab, Leo (uncle), 98,100 Schwab, Lisa Davis (daughter-in- 80-81 beating, arrest, and murder of law), 225, 251,256-57n3 Schwab, Michael Adrian husband by Nazis, 3,43-44, (grandson), 13, 227,251 Schwab, Nellie (aunt), 99,165 Schwab, Noah Alexander 243,245,248 death of son in Rumbula/ Bikerniek forest, 57,245,246, (grandson), 13,128,129,251 Schwab, Pamela Haas (daughter- 249 illness and death, 184,188 in-law), 125,127,250,251 292
INDEX Schwab, Robert (uncle) conversion to Catholicism, Scowcroft, Brent, 234 SD {Sicherheitsdienst, Security Service), 42-46,48-50, 165 death, 165 57-58 Sears, Roebuck, 169 in London, 57,73,99,165 Segal, Adam, 243nl0 at Shell Oil, 73,165 Schwab, Solan (son), 117-22,127 Bar Mitzvah (1982), 13,121, Segals, Henrietta, 186 Segals, Ilja, 147 Segals, Meier, 186 219,250 birth, 117,201-2 children, 251 Seton Hill University, 14 Shaffer, Elaine, 182 death of mother, Eleonora, Shah of Iran, 235-36 250-51 education, 120,122,215-16, Shell Oil, 73,165 Sholom Aleichem Foundation, 251,253-54 250 family travels with parents, 118-21,211-18 Shubitz, Helen, 188 Shubitz, Simon, 188 Sicherheitsdienst (SD, Security Service), 42-46,48-50, 57-58 marries Lisa Davis, 125,251 Schwab, Yette (aunt), see Wainstein, Yette Schwab (aunt) Sick, Max (Homen), 53, 54 Silberman, David, 255 Schwab, Zachary Eli (grandson), Silvestri, Stefano, 243n6 Sim, Mrs. Hwang Myong, 233 13,128,129,251 Schwartz, Arlene, 146 Schwartz, Barbara, 168 Sinn Fein (arm of IRA), 227-31 Sinnott, Peter J., 238 Sister Carol, see Rittner, Carol Schwartz, Bernie, 81, 83,167 Schwartz, Marcia, 81, 83, 90,110, (Sister Carol, Sister of Mercy) 152,167 Schwartz, Marjorie (Cookie), 83 Schwartz, Peter, 83,146 Skede/Skede Memorial, Latvia, 46, 50,143,144,248 Smith, Gustav, 80,167,213 Smith, Jean Kennedy, 228 Das Schwarze Korps (The Black Corps, SS newspaper), 159-60 Smith, Raya Taub, 80,167,213 293
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR smoking, 22-23,25-26,70,74 Snow, Mr. (Brooklyn teacher), 85 Ribbentrop-Molotov Non Snyder, Louis, 92,174 Germany (1939), 31-32, 37-38,40-41 aggression Pact with Nazi Sobotka, Genek, 170,185,187 Sobotka, Mia Kessel Schwab (sister-in-law) Spektor, Johanna, 256-57n3 Springfield, Muriel, 248,255, GDS visits in Europe, 170, 256-57n3 Springfield, Naomi, 256-57n3 Springfield, Peter, 248,256-57n3 185,187 at Kaiserwald, 50-51 marries Bernhard Boris Springfield, Steven, 248,255, Schwab, 45,47-48,25 5 marries Genek Sobotka, 170 256-57n3 VS. Atlantic (ship), 93 SS Gaertnerei (SS Nursery Garden Sobotka, Sam, 170,185,187 Soderberg, Nancy, 228, 243n6 Sohlman, Eva, 237 Nazi work camp), 54 S.S. Marine Perch (troop carrier), 79-80,106 Stalin, Joseph, 17,162,199-200 Sorbonne, Paris, 162 Soudeikine, Sergei, 166 South Africa, GDS sabbatical Ribbentrop-Molotov Non aggression Pact with Hitler (1939), 31-32,37-38,40-41 semester in, 206,211-14 South African Jewish Times, 202 Soviet Union attacks Germany (1941), 40-41 see also Soviet Union Stand, Anni, 156,160-61,196 Stargardt, Nicholas, 6nl Stefa (housekeeper in Libau), 17, collapse (1991), 233-34,238 19,23,24, 36 invades Poland (1939), 31 National Committee on American Foreign Policy Steiner, Frances, 167 Stern, Fritz, 207 222-25,233-35 Nazi Germany invades Stern, Vera, 256-57n3 Stern Gang (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel), 86-90,91 (1941), 2-3, 38 occupation of Latvia (1940), Stewart, John N., 243nl0 Stockholm, Sweden (NCAFP) détente project, GDS first travels to, 170,185 31-32,34-39 294
INDEX GDS meets Storch family, 187 support ofJews during World Nobel laureate dinner (2009), War II, 187,191,198-99 wife’s behavior and, 191 138,225 Schwab family trips to, 119, in World War II, 7/5 Storch, Marcus (brother-in-law) 214-15,217 Stockton University, 14 Storch, Anya (mother-in-law) as chairman of the Nobel Foundation, 225 Schwab triplets and, 202, engagement and marriage of daughter to GDS, 114, 214-15,217 in Stockholm, 114,187, 187-89 in New York City, 189-91,215 Schwab triplets and, 202, 214-15,217 Storch, Mulya, 198-99 Storch, Tobias (nephew), 217 Straits Exchange Foundation 214-15,217 in Stockholm, 114,187, (SEF), 232 214-15 Storch family dynamics, 189- Strand, Karen S., 256-57n3 Strauss, Leo, 159,177,220 Strong, Tracy B., 194 91,199,214-15,250-51 Storch, Eleonora, see Schwab, Storch, Elisabeth (Flisa) (niece), 217,250 Storch, Gunilla (sister-in-law), Strott, Karl Emil, 45 Stroup, John, 193 Stutthof extermination camp/ satellite camps, Poland, 4, 745,217 Storch, Hilel (Gilel) (father-in- 58-63,225 Suharenko, Arkady, 255 Eleonora Storch (wife) law) engagement and marriage Suharenko, Olga, 255 Sutherland, Joan, 187 of daughter to GDS, 114, Sutin, Claire, 214 Sutin, David, 214 187-89 financial difficulties, 191,199 Schwab triplets and, 119,202, Sutin, Gerald (Gerry, cousin), 724,214,256-57n3 Sutin, Linda, 214 214-15,217 in Stockholm, 114,119, Sutin, Myra (cousin), 124,214, 256-57n3 214-15 295
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Übermenschen, 67-68,77,153 Taft, Earl, 151 Taft, Hessy Levinsons, 151 Ulmanis, Guntis, 252 Taheri, Amir, 237,243n7 Taiwan (Republic of China) Forum on Asia Pacific Ulmen, G. L„ 192,194,256-57n3 Ulrich, Mr. (Libau school director), 29 Security (FAPS) project United Nations (UN) Security Council, 242 (NCAFP), 5,225,231-33 Taiwan Relations Act (1979), Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 236-37 231 Tamny, Martin, 207 Tanya, Aunt, see Schifftan, Tanya Jacobson (aunt) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.), 79,254 Taubes, Jacob, 164 Teichtahl, Wolfgang, 71 donor wall, 255 GDS becomes adviser to, 224 Teier, Zvi, 72 TELOS, 194 GDS on Collections and Acquisitions Committee, 224 tennis, 18,24,25,35,169, 200-201,212,217,248 GDS oral history videotape in, 5,14 Theodore Roosevelt and Labor 1900-1918 (Greenberg), GDS receives Elie Wiesel Award, 14,241 207-8 Thompson, Beverly, 242n3 origins and opening (1993), 4-5,14 University of Chicago Thompson, Kenneth, 242n3 Thompson, Nicholas, 243nl0 Solan Schwab graduates from, Tiedemann, Arthur, 209 Tiersky, Ronald, 243n6 216 University of Chicago Press, 193-94 Tokaev, Kasymzhomart, 238 Tomsen, Peter, 238 University of Pennsylvania ORBIS, 198 Track 1/Track II diplomacy, 5, Claude Schwab graduates 231-33,242n5 21st Century Leaders Council (NCAFP), 241 from, 216 Usiskin, Helen (Hilda) Krom, typhoid fever, 62-63 110,152,165,167 296
INDEX Watkins, Frederick, 152 Wechsler, Sally, 197,256n2 Veltina (Latvian grade-school classmate), 29, 33,47 Verfassungslehre (Schmitt), 220-21 Weinreich, Dr., 49 Vickrey, William, 153 Wexelman, Liat Sela, 252 Vike-Freiberga, Vaira, 5,138,145, Wiener, Joel, 209,211,256-57n3 Wiener, Suzanna (Sue), 211, Weinreich, Push, 49 242,252,255 Village Voice, 209 256n2,256-57n3 Wiesel, Elie, 12n6,124 birthplace in Romania, 244 as chairman of the Vishinsky, Andrei, 35,247 Vogel, Ezra, 242n5 Volcker, Paul, 240 Commission on the Holocaust, 10-11 Volker, Kurt, 243n6 Vorobjov, Nikita, 147 and duty of Holocaust Wainstein, Israel (Ljolja, cousin), survivors, 245 Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, 224 38-39,42 Wainstein, Manya (cousin), GDS friendship with, 4,207 103. see also Alder, Manya Wainstein (cousin) Humanitarian and Peace Award (NCAFP), 131,240 on NCAFP Board, 224 Nobel Peace Prize (1986) and, 224 Wainstein, Yette Schwab (aunt), 38-39,98,248 home at am Schwanenteich (Swan’s Pond), 24-25,41,46 murder of son, Israel, 42 Sholom Aleichem Foundation transport to Skede, 46 Walçsa, Lech, 224 and, 253 trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau (1988), 14 Wang Daohan, 231-32 Warburg, Anita, 224 Warburg, Max, 71 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum war games, 32,40,44,48, 85-86 (Washington, D.C.) and, 4-5, Warnecke, Grace Kennan, 240, 14,224,254-55 Wiesel, Marion, 254 241,243n6 War Refugee Board, 221 Wigner, Eugene, 242nl 297
ODYSSEY OF A CHILD SURVIVOR Winkler, Ettelka (piano teacher in Yellowitz, Irwin, 209 Liban), 18,27-28,32,34,105 Wisan, Professor (City College), 174 Yette, Aunt, see Wainstein, Yette Schwab (aunt) Young Leader Award (NCAFP), 241 Wisner, Heinz, Giinther, 55-56 Wittlin, Barbara, 256-57n3 Wittlin, Harry, 256-57n3 Wolff, Karl, 181-82 Wolfschmidt Vodka, 94 Zagoria, Donald S., 231,242n2, 242n5 Zaharjina, Irina, 147 Wollheim, Norbert, 75 Zaharjina, Jelena, 145 Wood, Neal, 175-76 World Jewish Congress, 187 Zaharjina, Svetlana, 147,255 Zaharjins, Aleksejs (Alex), 147, World War I/Great War, German end of, 67 Pearl Harbor (1941), 46 255 Zaharjins, Sergejs, 145,147,255 Zaharjins, Valerijs, 147 Zionist ideology/Jewish state Aliyah (Ascent) to Israel and, Soviet Union attacks Germany (1941), 40-41 78,79 Betar (Brit Trumpeldor), see also Holocaust; Nazi era 86-87 declaration ofJewish states occupation of Latvia, 17,18 World War II and GDS (1941-45); Nazis/ Nazi Germany Wuorinen, John, 92,176 independence (1948), 88 GDS studies in Israel, 93-96, Wybou, Gitta M., 256-57n3 Wyshograd, Michael, 242nl 109 Hanoar Hatzioni (Youth of Xavier, Uncle, see Doshiang, Zion), 92-95 Irgun Zvai Leumi, 86 Jewish Brigade, 72-76, 86-89 Xavier Kinginthai (Dr. King Li, uncle) Palmach movement, 86 Revisionist Party, 85-90 Yardney, Maya, 110,152 Yawitch, Polly, 213 Yehudah, Ben, 72 Stern Gang (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel), 86-90,91 Zirinski, Mrs., 105 298
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