The Story Of Life As A JEWISH REFUGEE In NEW YORK In 1940 | AI Reconstruction

In 1940, German-Jewish refugees arrived in New York with a legal maximum of ten Reichsmarks — about four dollars — after Nazi Germany stripped everything they owned through a sequence of taxes and currency controls. Doctors, lawyers, and professors rebuilt their lives from scratch in Washington Heights while a State Department quota system kept hundreds of thousands more from escaping Europe in time. This is the architecture of survival, and what it cost. #JewishRefugees #NewYork1940 #WashingtonHeights #ImmigrantHistory #WorldWarII #HolocaustHistory #UrbanHistory