Vienna-born Lily Renee Phillips fled Austria after the 1938 Anschluss, escaped to England on a Kindertransport and reunited with her parents in New York in 1940

'The Tobacconist' imagines friendship between founder of psychoanalysis and teenage boy in coming-of-age story set against backdrop of 1938 German annexation of Austria

After Lady Millicent Hawes met a bookseller in occupied Vienna whose wife's Jewish ancestry put the family in danger, she appealed to newspaper readers to help fund their escape

Real personal documents bring readers in direct contact with the struggles, hopes, and even bureaucratic hurdles of Jewish Europeans trying to escape an unforeseeable genocide