Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism

Leo Spitzer

1998

Two Photographs

Among the very few possessions my parents were permitted to take with them when they emigrated as refugees from Austria to Bolivia in June 1939 was a box camera and two family photo albums. Soon after their arrival in La Paz, they somehow acquired two additional albums—one in which my father pasted snapshots taken during their ocean…

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Creator Bio

Leo Spitzer

b. 1939

Bolivian-born Leo Spitzer is the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A scholar of African and Jewish history, colonialism, and racism, he has been the recipient of the Guggenheim, Ford, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and awards.

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