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Heydrich has always been reticent about his birth and youth: it is possible that this man with the viciously Nordic head had a Jew for father. He was born at Halle to a musical-academy director, listed in an old musical directory as "Bruno Richard Heydrich (properly Suss)." Suss is a common Jewish name in Germany...
Last of the great line of Central European symphonists, Mahler, a Bohemian Jew, has been dead for 30 years, but among musicians his name is still good for a dogfight. In Vienna, for Nazi reasons, Gustav Mahlerstrasse has been renamed Meistersingerstrasse-rendered Gustav Meistersingerstrasse by subversive Viennese. In the U.S., Mahler partisans are organized as intensely as movie-fan clubs. One group awards a Mahler medal to outstanding torchbearers (Philadelphia's Conductor Eugene Ormandy, Boston's Sergei Koussevitzky, German Exile Bruno Walter-Mahler's disciple). Commentator at the broadcasts is Czech Author Franz Werfel, third husband...
...struck out for England in charge of the children of two English acquaintances, and on the way west he found it necessary to his conscience to pick up several more. They were a little French girl, an orphaned French boy, a derelict Dutch orphan, a ten-year-old Polish Jew who desired only to kill Germans, and ultimately, a Nazi child. All of them he made it his increasingly dangerous business to protect, to convey to England, to reserve from war's destruction both in body and spirit. En route they endured every mechanism of debacle from delayed trains...
Violinist Hubermann, 59-year-old Polish Jew, has often been rated one of Europe's greatest, but in the U.S. and London he has never been such big box office as mellow Fritz Kreisler, brilliant Jascha Heifetz, musicianly Joseph Szigeti. Hubermann is finicky, fussy on the platform. Once he noticed that his audience included a dog, on a woman's lap. He stopped playing, demanded: "Madam, has your little dog paid for his ticket?", waited while woman and dog were hustled...
...Jew is left in Memel and Danzig...