EXILES' CORNER

My land has palm trees where the thrush sings...
All Brazilian schoolchildren know the Song of Exile by Gonçalves Dias – which in turn has as its epigraph the famous poem by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which every German can recite at least the first two verses: Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn, / Im dunkeln Laub die Goldorangen glühn... (Knowst thou that land, where the lemons bloom so fair/The golden oranges from dark-green branches glare...). It is curious that Stefan Zweig, the poet of coincidences, in choosing what was to be his last house, in Petrópolis, didn’t even notice that it was in the street which carries the name of the famous poet of Exile.
Nomen est omen – name is omen, goes the saying. In the same house that exiles Stefan and Lotte Zweig opted for death, distressed by the world plunged into war, hundreds of citizens who shared the same destiny, forced to flee Nazism between 1933 and 1945, will now, like them, be honored in a Memorial to Exile.

After Argentina, Brazil was the country which took in the most refugees. We don’t know exactly how many came. Some historians estimate that between 16,000 and 19,000 sought a new homeland in this land [with] palm trees. CASA STEFAN ZWEIG wants to honor them all, highlighting those who made decisive contributions to culture and science. Below, a list in no particular order of importance, which we shall be adding to regularly. Each name represents a life story, a saga, multiplied by the number of family members. Many other names will appear here as the site grows.

As a special homage to them all, we have chosen a poem by the great Jewish German author Heinrich Heine (1797-1856):):

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Adler, Johann Anton Adlerova, Charlotta Agache, Hubert Donat Alfred Altberg, Alexandre Andrian-Werburg, Leopold von Arany, Oscar Arcade, Bruno Arnau, Frank Ascarelli, Tullio Bach, Susanne Eisenberg Ballhausen, Günther Becher, Ulrich Benton, José Antonio (Hans Elsas) Berger, Peter Ludwig Bernanos, George Bianco, Enrico Blumental, Felicja Boese, Henrique Brand, Max Brandt, Hannah Henriette Brentani, Gerda Bresslau, Ernst Ludwig Bresslau-Hoff, Louise Brieger, Friedrich Gustav Brill, Alice Brill, Marte Caro, Herbert Moritz Carpeaux, Otto Maria Chabloz, Jean-Pierre Choromanski. Michal Czapski de Fiori, Ernesto Eichbaum, Gisela Feder, Ernst Feigl, Fritz	Flexor, Samson Flieg, Hans Günter Flusser, Vilém Fraenkel, Erich Fried, Carl Gartenberg, Alfred Geyerhahn, Norbert e Walter Gottlieb, Otto Richard Gross, Bernhard Guarnieri, Gianfrancesco Görgen, Hermann Matthias Haberkorn, Werner Hauptmann, Heinrich Heller, Frederico Heller, Otto Hoffmann-Harnisch, Wolfgang Huyn, Johannes Franz Graf Jacobovits, Waltraut Jolles, Heinz (Henry) Jordan, Fred Kaminagai, Tadashi Katz, Richard Katzenstein, Betti Keller, Wilhelm (Willy) Kiefer, Bruno Kleemann, Fredi Klinghoffer, Hans Yitzhak Koch, Adelheid Lucy Koellreutter, Hans-Joachim Kondracki, Michał Korène, Vera Krajcberg, Frans Kreiser, Walter Kürschner, Izidor Leskoschek, Axl	Lewinsohn, Richard Lewy, Walter Lichtenstern, Herbert Lieblich, Karl Lustig-Prean, Karl von Löw-Lazar, Friederike Maier, Mathilde Manzon, Jean Marcus, Ernst Markus, David Mehlich, Ernst Métall, Rudolf Aladár Mizne, Markus Mortara, Giorgio Oliven, Fritz Ornstein, Oskar Ostrower, Fayga Pinkuss, Fritz Rawitscher, Felix Rheinboldt, Heinrich Roger van Rogger (Roger Silberfeld) Rónai, Paulo Rosenfeld, Anatol Stern, Hans Straus, Agi Strowski, Fortunat Szenes, Arpad Szenkar, Eugen Trebitsch, Regina Tuwim, Julian Wittkowski, Victor Wolff, Egon e Frieda Wöller, Wilhelm Zach, Jan Zamoyski, August