Blankenese
Former fishing hamlet of steep lanes and river-view stairs, once a wartime refuge for young Holocaust survivors.
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This guide to Blankenese in Hamburg opens in May 1945, days after the surrender, when a US Army lieutenant colonel named Eric Warburg climbs the wooded Kösterberg to the estate his Jewish banking family lost in 1938. It follows the British and city officials who each had their own plans for the hill, and the relief agency Warburg approached. Best heard on the slope above the Elbe, with the river in view.
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