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stay in germany?
After Hitler is declared Führer, people like you are subjected to laws restricting your rights, and you see anti-Semitism rise in Europe. You lose all chances to get a job because your grandparents were Jewish and you are seen as racially impure. You live in constant threat of being sent to a concentration camp, and you seek options to leave the country. Chances to escape are limited.
go to america with josef?
Black Mountain College gives no grades and has no required courses! You find it “truly interesting.” You teach weaving, make extraordinary weavings, and develop new textiles. You write essays on design that reflect your passionate vision. You are Anni Albers, and you have won the Adventure of Modern Art!
4. love and war
At the Bauhaus, not everything is about weaving. There are parties! You meet Josef Albers! You marry him in Berlin in 1925. But complications lie ahead. In 1933, Adolf Hitler comes to power in Germany and the Bauhaus is pressured to shut down. The Nazi terror campaign targets Jews, disabled people, Roma, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Afro-Germans, and people with ties to any of these groups. Your family has converted to Christianity, but you have Jewish roots. An opportunity comes up in the US: Josef is invited
to teach at a new experimental school called Black Mountain College in North Carolina—a place you know nothing about. There, you could become just your husband’s wife and lose everything you have built in Germany. But the risk of persecution by the Nazis is real. What do you do?
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