User:Martha Forsyth/Scratchpad

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Material maybe to still use

 * http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jasoncs/family.html:

 My brother Marcus Stanley was an assistant professor of economics at Case Western. Now he is a staff economist for the Joint Economic Committee. My father, Manfred Stanley, was a professor in the Department of Sociology at Syracuse University. This is a very brief address I gave at Syracuse University's memorial service for him in December, 2004, about his work. Here are some pictures of him as a child in Berlin. Here is the synagogue in Berlin where my great-grandfather, Magnus Davidsohn, was the chief Cantor for many years; Leo Baeck was the chief Rabbi. Here is a CD that contains some songs sung by him; the page also contains a brief clip of him singing the Psalm von Lewandowsky. There are a number of books that discuss him, some using the Christian name he used as an opera singer, Magnus Dawison (e.g. Chapter 6 of this volume of Henry-Louis De la Grange's biography of Gustav Mahler). This is a very brief description of an episode of the show This is Your Life, with Ralph Edwards, featuring my grandmother, Ilse Stanley. She is also author of the book, The Unforgotten (Beacon Press, 1957), and appears in the movie Metropolis. Here is her New York Times Obituary, from 1970. And here is a short review of her book from the Psychiatric Quarterly, 31.1 (January, 1957): The Unforgotten. By ILSE STANLEY. 375 pages. Cloth. Beacon. Boston. 1957. Price $4.95. Ilse Stanley's story is another of those to make ordinary Americans, who have merely read about the Gestapo, wonder at the capacity for tolerance and insight which seems to characterize some of the people whom the Nazis treated the worst. Mrs. Stanley tells of a pleasant girlhood in Berlin and a promising career cut short when Hitler commenced rounding up the Jewish population for concentration camps. It would be unfair to explain how she did it but, because she was not readily recognized as Jewish, she was able to snatch scores of victims away from death or imprisonment. When Germany at length became too hot even for her, she managed to reach this country where she was still called upon for unusual exercise of brains and courage. With the war over, she embarked on her own program to re-create good will and understanding among Germans of both Christian and Jewish faith. Any student of human relations should enjoy and profit from this book.


 * (This link (from the quote above) gives some more family history. Jason Stanley is Ilse's grandson, son of Manfred.  I wrote to him and he wrote right back; he started the page on Magnus Davidsohn.  He has a brother; they want to reissue the book. 21:16, 7 October 2008 (UTC))

From the discussion on Ruminations on "Multiculturalism" in Germany Our grandmother, Ilse Stanley, wrote an amazing book about her experiences in Germany, called *The Unforgotten*. She was an actress trained by Max Reinhardt, and she appeared in the movie Metropolis. From 1936-1939 she was part of an underground group that used documents supplied by a Nazi friend of hers to smuggle Jews from concentration camps to outside of the country; my grandmother would bring the passes into the camps herself, dressed as a Nazi social worker, and bring the prisoners to freedom. She and our father got out at the last possible moment (as I say above, August, 1939). The book was published both in England and in Germany in the 1950s, and recounts her experiences in Germany and as an immigrant in the United States. There is also a *This is Your Life* show about her, from 1955 (which we have on tape -- since my grandmother died right after I was born, this is my only image I have of her). According to my father, Hollywood wanted to do a movie of the book, with Ingrid Bergmann playing my grandmother. But since they wanted her character in the movie to have a love affair with the high Nazi official who supplied her with the passes, she refused. My brother and I have wanted to get the book reissued for years (it came out at a time when the last thing people wanted to hear about was stories of immigrant Jews), but we don't know how to do it... Posted by: Jason Stanley | December 04, 2005 at 10:51 PM
 * How did I miss this page before?! It's from 2005:


 * This post is from 8 Nov. 2008:

Kristallnacht (J. Stanley)

Today is the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. My grandmother was living across the street from the Fasanenstrasse Synagogue, where her father was chief cantor. Her life was intertwined with that synagogue, which she called her "house". I've posted her account of its destruction on Kristallnacht here.

Posted by Jason Stanley on November 09, 2008 at 09:25 AM in Blog Posts by Jason Stanley | Permalink

From her book

 * p. 125: "For the first time in years I felt regret that I had not left in 1933." (Just before the temples were burned.)

Material I've used (but may need to refer to)

 * http://www.cine-holocaust.de/cgi-bin/gdq?efw00fbw000156.gd (referenced in Magnus Davidsohn: "She was also featured on an episode of the American television program This is Your Life, where she was reunited with her father") ✅ reads as follows:

 "Intrator" was the last name of my biological grandfather, Alexander Intrator, a concert violinist. He was Ilse's first husband - in the book, he's the one called "Paul".)
 * What's "Intrator"? Name of Ilse's first husband, per Jason Stanley [see below] ✅:

I am not a book critic, but love to read true life adventures. Ilse Stanley was a remarkable woman. The daughter of a Jewish Rabbi, she had every opportunity to achieve her dreams of success in the theatrical arts and music and became famous and wealthy. She was forced to leave her profession because she was a Jew. Because of her strong belief in God and love for her country (Germany), she worked to save many (over 400) people from Hitler's death camps in the years 1933-1938. You will be blessed to read this book by this very brave woman. ✅ - is it really OK to quote this on WP?? NO—so just link.
 * Aha, Amazon lists The Unforgotten as follows: The Unforgotten by Ilse Davidsohn Stanley, Beacon Press (1957) (375 pp.). I know that it is a hard cover (I have it).  ASIN: B0007DQOD.  Also lists I will lift up mine eyes by Ilse Stanley (Unknown Binding - 1954.) ✅
 * More Amazon - customer review of I Will Lift up Mine Eyes, by I. Stanley — review by S. Robertson:


 * Also Auschwitz: Geschichte, Rezeption und Wirkung, by Fritz Bauer Institut, Fritz-Bauer-Institut, Published by Campus Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3593354411, 9783593354415 (410 pages) mentions Ilse Intrator Stanley on pp. 384 and 401: "... Rabbiner und Gemeindeoberhaupt aus Deutschland, Ilse Intrator Stanley, eine Jüdin, die 412 Personen aus einem Konzentrationslager gerettet hatte, ..." (you can see the whole page 384, but not quote it, from the Google Books ref. above). ✅

Early draft (keep here till I'm sure I don't need it anymore) (mark things that still need to be incorporated in red )

= Ilse Stanley — 11/26/08 promoted to a "real" article! (so edit there not here in future) =

Ilse (Intrator) Stanley (née Ilse F. Davidsohn), (approx. 1906 – July 21, 1970), was a German Jewish woman who, with the collusion of a handful of people ranging from Nazi members of the Gestapo to Jewish civilians, secured the release of 412 Jewish prisonsers from concentration camps between 1936 and 1938. During that time she also helped countless others leave the country while it was still possible for Jews to do so legally. This story was sketched publicly in 1955 on Ralph Edwards's TV program, This Is Your Life, and is told in vivid detail in Stanley's autobiographical book, The Unforgotten, published in 1957.

Early life
'''Warning:Nationmaster is not a valid ref, it's copied from WP!!! But bh.org is (I believe! - 12/2/08'''

Daughter of Magnus Davidsohn (the Fasanenstrasse Synagogue's main cantor),


 * official opening of Fasanenstrasse Synagogue was 26 August 1912


 * Fasanenstrasse Synagogue was in the Charlottenburg section of Berlin. Ilse's German life was thoroughly entwined with this synagogue, which she called "my House".  Presenting flowers to the German Emperor at age 6.

Actress, trained by Max Reinhardt;
 * stage name: Ilse Davis p.70,
 * bit part in Fritz Lang's film Metropolis.
 * acting career ended in 1933, when Jews were no longer allowed to work
 * "Grauen Mond" theatre? "hers"? (acc to - need to track this down

First marriage — violinist Alexander Intrator ("Paul" in The Unforgotten).

what she had faith in/believed'' - describe somehow: perhaps "never to let fear and hatred rule her life"? - see what she wrote and use her words

Concentration camp(s?)
After she could no longer work at her profession, and seeing no hope for matters to improve in the visible future, she became somewhat depressed.

Having succeeded the first time, she continued to take false papers to Sachsenhausen for three more years, ultimately securing the release of 412 people before the devastating events of Kristallnacht (9 November 1938) when the Synagogues all over Germany—including Ilse's "House"—were torched.

work in "Jewish Community" organization??? need to understand better, to include

1938, 1939
something in her book, she gave "readings" -??

After Kristallnacht, the situation worsened dramatically. Ilse was no longer able to go to the camps, but she continued to help people leave the country. Detail(s)? As the Gestapo began interviewing people planning to leave Germany in order to try to prevent them from leaving, Fritz found a way to warn her. And Ilse herself, along with her family, began to prepare their departure. They left separately: first her father, in March of 1939. Then her husband. Five days before Ilse's planned departure, her mother was summoned to the Gestapo on Alexanderplatz. Ilse went in her stead. Once again, her acting past unexpectedly surfaced: the younger of her two interrogators recognized her. But the interview continued with no further reference to that. All went surprisingly well, until Ilse made a near-fatal slip: she mentioned her own impending departure. In answer to further close questioning, Ilse spoke quietly about presenting flowers to the Emperor at the age of six, about the Emperor's flight from Germany on November 9, 1918, about Kristallnacht, which happened exactly twenty years later (November 9, 1938). One of her two interrogators broke down. She was allowed to leave the office, and three days later [date?? visa issued 17 April 1939 ], she and her son Manfred left for England.

''"The brief version": Finally, in 1939, Ilse found herself unable to continue living in Germany. Narrowly escaping arrest at the last moment, when she went once again to Gestapo headquarters to speak for her mother who had received a summons, she and her son Manfred left for England.''

America
Ilse and Manfred left for the U.S.A. from Southampton, England, on the ship "Deutschland", on 4 August 1939 and arrived in the U.S. on 11 August.

Recognition
In 1955 Ilse Stanley was featured on an episode of the American television program This is Your Life; on this program she was reunited with her father, Magnus Davidsohn.

Writings by Ilse Stanley

 * See a particularly nice Amazon customer review.
 * Reprinted in November/December 1992 issue, vol. 264:6.
 * Reprinted in November/December 1992 issue, vol. 264:6.