Overture of Hope, page 26
7. Mary Burchell, A Song Begins (London: Mills & Boon, 1965), 101.
8. Ibid.
9. McAleer, Passion’s Fortune, 289.
10. Ida Cook to Tito and Tilde Gobbi, March 3, 1973, Associazione Musicale Tito Gobbi, Archivo Storico.
11. Mani Mekler Baker, interview with the author, October 27, 2018.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ida Cook to Tilde and Tito Gobbi, June 8, 1977, Associazione Musicale Tito Gobbi, Archivo Storico.
15. Ida Cook to Elayne Duke, October 8, 1979, Rosa Ponselle Papers, Music Division, NYPL, New York.
16. Ida Cook to Rosa Ponselle, December 1973, Rosa Ponselle Papers, Music Division, NYPL, New York.
17. Descriptions of Louise Cook’s final years are from an interview with Jeanne Henny, March 3, 2020.
18. Ida Cook, Safe Passage: The Remarkable True Story of Two Sisters Who Rescued Jews from the Nazis (Toronto: Harlequin, 2008), 148.
19. Jeanne Henny, interview with the author, June 18, 2018.
20. Jeanne Henny, interview with the author, March 3, 2020.
21. Cook, Safe Passage, 148.
22. Jeanne Henny, interview with the author, March 3, 2020.
23. Ibid.
24. Louise Cook made an appointment to see Leslie Flint on May 26, 1987, according to the Leslie Flint Educational Trust. The tape of that seance is referenced in Louise Carpenter, “Ida and Louise,” Granta 98, July 2, 2007.
Index
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A
Adlon Hotel (Hotel Adlon), 81, 126
Adoption of Children Act, 1926, 131
Adriana Lecouvreur, 175
Africa, 31, 85, 110
Aida, 208
air-raid shelter, 153, 156, 172
Albert, Prince, 2, 10
Albert Hall. See Royal Albert Hall
Albert Memorial, 1–2, 10
Alexander II, Czar, 64
Alexandra Palace, 9, 12
Allies, 76
Alnwick, England, 4–6, 12, 53 174, 236
Alnwick District Association, 92
ambassador, 44, 82, 90, 147, 216
American Friends Service Committee, 114
Amery, Leo, 150
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 48–50
annexation, 89–90, 136, 155
Anschluss, 90–91, 100, 130, 136, 167, 189, 191
anti-Hitler underground, 125
anti-Semitism, 43, 85–86
Arabella, 34, 46, 48, 68, 81, 171, 186, 205
aria, 8–9, 26–27, 51, 175, 177
Aryan, 64, 66, 74, 82–83, 91, 111, 114, 122, 129, 136, 142, 166–67
assassination, 40–42, 64, 68, 105, 118
Avenue of the Righteous, 214
Auschwitz, 165, 169
Austria, xii–xiv, 29, 34, 39–44, 67–68, 72, 88–92, 94, 96, 98–100, 103–5, 108, 117, 119–20, 122, 125, 129, 131, 133, 135–38, 140, 149, 153, 165–67, 169, 181–82, 184, 186–87, 189–93, 195, 200–1, 203, 205–7, 214–16, 236
Austrian Aid Committee, 103, 105
Austrian Commission, 190–91, 193
Axis, 152, 163
B
Baltazzi, Hector, 35
Baltimore, Maryland, 175–76, 178
Bamberger, Elisabeth, 86–87, 105–6, 115–16, 118, 121–22, 176, 178
Bamberger, Friedl (Mrs. Ruggero Orlando), 86–89, 103, 105, 120–21, 152, 176, 178, 214
baritone, xii–xiii, 95, 197, 223
Barnes, London, 1, 3, 211
Basch, Oswald, 115, 122, 152, 178
Basch, Helene, 115, 122, 152, 178
Basch, Lisa, 115–16, 122, 143, 152, 178, 214
Bartók, Béla, 199
Battle of Cable Street, 76
Bauer, Herbert, 103
Bauer, Ilse (Winter), 103–5, 113, 117–18, 121, 176, 214, 217
Bauer, Irma, 103–5, 113, 117–18, 121–22, 124–25, 176
Bavaria, Germany, 73, 164, 184–85, 224
Bavarian Alps, 166, 224
Bavarian State Opera, 73, 79, 166–67, 185, 189
Bayan, Daria, 162
Bayreuth Festival, 187, 204
BBC, xvi, 8, 120, 147, 151, 159
Beecham, Thomas, 17, 70, 141
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 28, 42, 66, 68, 74, 201, 207
Belgium, 109, 142, 150
Berengaria, RMS, 13, 25, 27
Berenguer, Manuel, 11
Berg, Alban, 66, 72, 134–35
Berghof, 166
Berlin, Germany, xi–xii, xiv, xvi, 18, 35, 66, 69–74, 81, 90, 92, 110, 112–13, 117, 119, 125–27, 142–43, 161, 185–89, 192, 236 Philharmonic, 69, 164, 188, 191
State Opera, 69, 71–72, 134
Bermondsey, 156, 158
Blitz, 152–56, 159–61, 163, 169, 174
Bloomsbury House, 130, 132, 144
Blythe House, xi, xvii, 237
Board of Deputies of British Jews, 84, 109, 130
Böhm, Karl, 203, 206
Boon, Charles, 52–54, 62, 203, 226
Boris Godonov, 178
Bormann, Martin, 165–66, 168, 189, 192
Brahms, Johannes, 66, 199, 204
Brazil, 163, 176, 214, 217
Britain, xvii, 1, 5, 7, 10, 30, 59, 83–85, 90–91, 100, 109, 119–20, 124, 133, 138, 142, 150, 155, 174, 181, 212, 216, 229, 235. See also England; United Kingdom
British Committee for the Jews of Germany, 119
British Embassy in Berlin, xvi, 117
British Hero of the Holocaust Award, xvi
British Union of Fascists, 59, 85, 150
Broadway, 17, 25–26
Brown, Mary (Mrs. John Cook), 2–3, 22, 51, 154, 158, 174
Brunner, Alois, 92
Buchenwald, 110, 122
Budapest, Hungary, 29, 223–24
Burchell, Mary, xv, 51, 174, 203, 226
Busch, Fritz, 68–69, 121
buzz bombs, 174–75
C
Cable Street Riots, 150
Café Tomaselli, 45
Callas, Maria, 207–8, 225
Canada, 141–42, 239
Capriccio, 164, 167, 202–3
Carmen, 36, 175
Carnegie Hall, 22, 35
Cartland, Barbara, 53
Caruso, Enrico, 9, 26, 126, 175, 199
Cassinelli, Augusta, 48
Catskill Mountains, xiii, 22–23
Central Agency for Jewish Emigration, 92
Chamberlain, Neville, 90, 122, 147, 150
Chicago, Illinois, 18–19, 136, 172 Opera Company, 19
Churchill, Winston, 70, 150, 229
citizenship, 64, 127, 131, 136
claqueurs, 135
Cold War, 182, 223
Committee for the Righteous, 215
Compayne Gardens, 163, 197
composer, 8, 10, 19–20, 26, 35, 43, 66, 70, 74, 121, 134–35, 164, 183–84, 186, 197, 202, 205, 207, 212
concentration camp, 61, 66, 91, 103–4, 108, 110–11, 115, 117, 119–20, 138–40, 142, 145–46, 165, 169, 220
conductor, xii, 17, 22, 34–36, 45–46, 48, 54, 67–69, 71, 74, 95, 121, 133–36, 139, 161–62, 164, 168, 181, 184–85, 188–89, 191, 196–97, 200, 202–7, 212, 216, 225–26, 228, 236
Cook, Bill, 3, 129, 132, 154
Cook, Jim, 5, 154
Cook, John, 1–3, 154, 156, 174
Cook, Mary. See Brown, Mary
Cosi Fan Tutti, 135
coup, 39–40, 44, 89
Covent Garden, xi, xiii, 8–9, 25–27, 31–33, 37, 50, 58, 68, 70, 142, 147, 154, 158, 161, 171, 174, 176–77, 204–5, 220, 228–29
Croydon, England, 93, 176, 196
Czechoslovakia, 110, 120, 122, 183. See also Slovakia
D
Dachau, 115, 145
D-Day, 174
de Ahna, Pauline Maria (Mrs. Richard Strauss), 201–2
de Gaulle, Charles, 151
de Pasetti, Otto, 184–90
Debussy, Claude, 66
Decree for the Reporting of Jewish-Owned Property, 91
Defence Regulation 18B, 152
denazification, 182, 184, 187, 189, 203, 236
Denmark, 149
Depression. See Great Depression
Der Rosenkavalier, 40, 43, 201–2
Die Frau Ohne Schatten, 43
Die Liebe der Danae, 167
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 71, 187
divorce, 18, 60, 67, 136, 142, 145
Dollfuss, Engelbert, 39–42, 46, 68
Dolphin Square, 57–60, 82, 85–86, 106, 116, 120, 140–41, 151–54, 163, 175–77, 200, 203, 206, 208–9, 228, 230, 232
Dominican Republic, 101
Don Giovanni, 40, 47–48, 141, 147
Don Pasquale, 196–97
doodlebugs. See buzz bombs
Dowden, Arthur, 107, 110, 117
Drage, Benjamin, 130
Dresden, Germany, 46, 69, 121, 186 State Opera, 68
Duchess’s School, 4–6, 23, 174, 236
E
Ecuador, 176, 178
Edward VIII, King, 60
Eichmann, Adolf, 92, 214
Ehrwald, Austria, 201, 207, 224
Elektra, 44
Ellis Island, 173
encores, 11, 29, 32
England, xiv–xv, 2–4, 13, 17, 22, 29, 33, 50, 61–62, 65, 80, 82, 85, 88–89, 92, 95, 97, 100, 103–7, 116–17, 120–21, 126, 131, 140, 143, 145–46, 154, 160, 172, 198, 212, 214, 217, 237. See also Britain; United Kingdom
Erede, Alberto, 196
Eroica, 42
Evans & Salter, 17, 21
Evian Inter-Governmental Conference, 100–101
F
Falstaff, 22
fascism, 31, 59, 66, 76, 87, 152, 163–64, 188
Faust, 48
Festspielhaus, 46
Fidelio, 40–43, 68, 79
Fifth Column Fascists, 150
Final Solution to the Jewish Question, 165
First World War (the Great War), 1, 4, 6, 10, 40, 52, 75, 134–35, 156, 199, 236
Flint, Leslie, 211, 230, 232, 239
Florence, Italy, 31–32, 208, 227
Flying Dutchman, The, 79–81
France, 75, 142, 151, 155, 181, 188, 191, 212
Frank, Hans, 183, 188
Frankenstein, Alfred, 204–5, 209
Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt), Germany, xiv, 62–63, 65, 77, 80, 82–83, 86–87, 103–6, 108–19, 121–25, 134, 145, 172, 213, 217, 230 Opera, 46, 65, 114, 133
Frauenfeld, Alfred, 191–92
Free French government, 151
French, Frederick Fillmore, 58–59
French Resistance, 151
Furtwängler, Wilhelm, 69–72, 74, 187–88
G
Galli-Curci, Amelita, xii–xiii, 8–12, 15–25, 27–31, 33, 60, 157, 172–74, 178, 212, 229, 238
Garmisch, Germany, 73, 164, 183, 201–2
Gatti-Casazza, Giulio, 26, 33
Geissmar, Berta, 69–71
Gestapo, 61, 73, 89–91, 104, 107, 111–12, 115, 121–22, 125, 130, 133, 138–39, 163, 165, 189, 218
ghost, 3–4, 161, 211–21
Giannini, Vittorio, 74
Gloucester, England, 154, 174
Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 121
Gobbi, Tito, 223, 227, 229, 237
Goebbels, Josef, 31, 43, 66, 73, 81, 101, 166–67, 187–88
Goebbels, Magda, 142
Goering, Hermann, 44, 47, 70, 72–73, 81, 167, 189
Graham, Charles, 123–24, 126
Grahl, Hans, 42
gramophone, xi, xiii, 8–9, 11, 20, 50, 58, 60, 62, 141, 230–31
Grand Wagner Festival, 10
Graz, Austria, 35, 134, 184
Great Depression, 29, 31, 85
Grynszpan, Herschel, 105, 118, 127
Guarantee Department at the Board of Deputies of British Jews, 130
Guinness, Diana (Mrs. Oswald Mosley), 59, 151–52
Guthrie, Nesta, 154
H
Hailsham, Viscount, 40
Harris, Charles, 131–32, 143
Harris, Emily, 143
Hartmann, Rudolf, 189
Havana, Cuba, 19, 141
Hawkins House, 152–53
Haydn, Franz Josef, 204–5, 207
Heimwehr, 186
Henny, Jeanne, 231–32, 237
Hess, Myra, 159, 172
Heydrich, Reinhard, 91, 165
Himmler, Heinrich, 81, 91
Hindemith, Paul, 66, 70–71
Hitler, Adolf, xi–xii, xvii, 31, 33–34, 39, 41–44, 60, 65–67, 69–71, 73, 75, 81, 84, 89–90, 94–95, 101, 109, 125, 149–51, 164–68, 182–83, 185, 187–89, 191–92
Hoch Conservatory, 65, 82, 113–14
Holland, Netherlands, 142, 150, 189
Hollywood, xvi, 167, 217–20, 225
Holocaust, xvii, 85, 213, 215, 220, 227 Educational Trust, xvi
Memorial Museum, 235, 238
Home Office, 108–9, 111, 131–33, 138, 140
Hood House, 59, 151
Hotter, Hans, 95
Huberman, Bronislaw, 75–76
Hungary, 223–24
Hyde Park, 159 Speakers’ Corner, 94
I
Iduarte, Andrés, 207
Il Barbiere di Siviglia, 22
immigration, 85, 100, 108, 136, 139 immigrants, 84–85, 108, 162
quotas, 100, 109, 144
Industrial Revolution, 6
Isle of Man, 152
Israel, xiv, xvii, 213–17, 227
Israeli Embassy, 216
Italy, xiv, 9–10, 31–32, 40, 63, 86–87, 120, 152, 155, 173, 185, 189
J
Jack, Pauline, 114, 230
Jackson, Carle, 175, 178
Japan, 173, 176, 183
Jedermann, 45
Jerusalem, Israel, 213–14, 235
Jewish Automobile Club, 119
Jewish Refugees Committee, 109
Johnson, Edward, 175
K
Kerber, Erwin, 94–95
Kern, Adele, 65, 188, 206, 216
Kerr, Alfred, 161
Kindertransport, 119, 125, 130–31, 137, 140, 146, 160
Knappertsbusch, Hans, 74–75
Knight, Charles Henry Maxwell, 59, 151
Kolhmar, Fred, 219
Krauss, Clemens, xii, 34–37, 39–40, 42–47, 49, 54, 63, 65–77, 80–81, 94–95, 99, 113, 133–37, 140, 155, 163–69, 171, 174, 181–82, 184–94, 195, 198–209, 212–13, 216, 219–20, 225–27, 236
Kristallnacht, xvi, 103–5, 107–8, 110, 112, 115, 118–19, 122, 145, 183, 217
L
La Bohème, 22, 172
La Forza del Destino, 26, 175, 177
La Traviata, 8, 19–20, 29, 178
La Vestale, 31, 208
Landau, Moshe, 214–15
Lehmann, Lotte, 47, 68
Leopoldskron, Austria, 167, 181, 192
Les Huguenots, 33
lesbianism, 7
libretto, 161, 164, 202
Lismann, Carl, 116
Lismann, Mitia (Mayer-Lismann), 49–50, 54–55, 60–67, 75–77, 80, 82–83, 86–88, 103, 106, 113–16, 121, 130, 137, 152, 172, 188, 200, 206–7, 213
Logan, Joshua, xvi, 217–20, 238
Lohengrin, 70
Lourie, Arthur, 216
Lucedia, 74
Lucia di Lammermoor, 9, 11
Luftwaffe, 150, 156, 158, 169
M
Mabs Fashions, 20, 23, 28, 30, 32, 51–52, 62
Madama Butterfly, 8
Mahler, Ella, 213–14, 216
Mahler, Gustav, 66
Maliniak, Gerda. See Rissler, Ellen Gerda
Maliniak, Georg, 130–40, 160–63, 195–200, 236
Maliniak, Ingeborg Daisy, 130, 140, 199
Manhattan, New York City, xiii, 15, 58, 217, 227
Marburg, Friedl, 123–25
Marks & Spencer, xvii, 96, 118, 143, 227
Martinelli, Giovanni, 208, 229
Mascagni, Pietro, 19
Maschat, Erik, 98–99, 186, 188–89
Mathis der Maler, 70
Mauthausen concentration camp, 91
May Laws, 64
Mayer, Paul, 65, 172
Mayer-Lismann, Else, 65–66, 82–83, 85–89, 105, 121, 152, 207, 213–14, 230–31
Mayer-Lismann, Friz, 65
Mayer-Lismann, Mitia. See Lismann, Mitia
Mein Kampf, 60, 70, 185
Mekler, Mani, 227–28, 238
Mendelssohn, Felix, 66
Metropolitan Opera (the Met), xii–xiii, 12, 17, 19–21, 26, 32, 48, 70, 173, 175, 178, 208
Mexico City, Mexico, 204–5
Milan, Italy, 18, 33
Mills & Boon, 52–54, 62, 203, 226
Mills, Gerald Rusgrove, 52
Morales, Angelica, 204
Mosley, Oswald, 59, 76, 85, 151–52
Movement for the Care of Children, 119
Mozart, 20, 47, 80, 121, 135
Mozarteum Academy, 185, 192
Munich, Germany, xi–xii, xiv, 73–74, 79–81, 95–96, 98–100, 113, 164–69, 184–86, 188, 190, 200–202, 224 State Opera, 73–74, 94–95, 164, 167, 185, 188
Pact, 155
Music Art and Drama Society, 161, 196–97
Mussolini, Benito, 31, 59, 86, 89, 173
N
nationalism, 29, 86, 187
National Socialist Motor Corps, 119
National Theater, 164, 167
Netherlands, 74, 120, 142
New York (city), xii–xiii, 12–13, 15–16, 19–23, 25, 27, 31–32, 35, 57–58, 126, 152, 163, 173, 175, 178, 217, 226–27
New York (state), 22, 25, 27–28, 60
New York Philharmonic Society, 22
Norma, 25–26
Normandy, France, 174
Northumberland, England, 4, 23, 92, 171, 174, 212, 236
Norway, 150
Nuremberg Laws, 64–65, 75, 83, 136, 220
O
Office of Military Government, U.S. Army, 185, 189
