Creator Bio
Leo Spitzer
b. 1939
Bolivian-born Leo Spitzer is the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A scholar of African and Jewish history, colonialism, and racism, he has been the recipient of the Guggenheim, Ford, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and awards.
Content by Leo Spitzer
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Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism
Among the very few possessions my parents were permitted to take with them when they emigrated as refugees from Austria to Bolivia in June 1939 was a box camera and two family photo…