Beyond the Golden Door pp Cite as. There are many plays about the efforts of Jewish sons to free themselves from their parents, but what about the Jewish daughters? Of course, most of the playwrights are male. There are few dramatic equivalents to the Lower East Side fiction of Anzia Yezierska, in which young women fight to free themselves from traditional patriarchal fathers, although this theme is touched on, somewhat awkwardly, in a subplot of Rags , and it surfaces again in A Shayna Maidel by Barbara Lebow b. Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF. Skip to main content.

My husband's father and mother are Jews. My parents are both what Mr. Hitler would be pleased to call 'Aryan' Germans. I am an American-born girl, and the first to defend my Americanism in an argument; yet so strong are family ties, and the memory of a happy thirteen-month sojourn in the Vaterland a few years ago, that I frequently find myself trying to see things from the Nazis' point of view and to find excuses for the things they do—to the dismay of our liberal-minded friends and the hurt confusion of my husband. Here we are then, Ben and I, a Jew and a German-American, married for four years, supremely happy, with a three-year-old son who has his father's quick brown eyes and my yellow hair.

It was January 27, , when the gates were finally opened to about 6, prisoners. Days earlier, the Nazis had forced nearly 30, other prisoners to leave on foot in the midst of a blizzard. It began when she and more than other young Slovak women, many of them teenagers, boarded the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz in