When someone with a Jewish-sounding last name called to make a reservation, hotels would often lie and say they had no vacancies.
There was no reason to include the remark about an individual not knowing how to celebrate Christmas who has a Jewish-sounding name.
He changed his name because Voglhut was a Jewish-sounding name and antisemitism was growing at the time.
Tintin's double was now given the more Jewish-sounding name of Salomon Goldstein.
Some simply phoned friends and asked them to go through telephone books and warn those with Jewish-sounding names to go into hiding.
In the book, Levis is sent to a concentration camp because of his Jewish-sounding name.
At one point they asked Ms. Derickson to sort through the passengers' passports to single out people with Jewish-sounding names.
Derickson was asked to sort through passenger passports to single out people with Jewish-sounding names.
Others denied it but were pulled out of the P.O.W. population for having Jewish-sounding names.
The authors admit they included some of the 24,000 people in the book just because they had Jewish-sounding names.