Later in 1935 , Arendt joined Youth Aliyah ( Youth immigration ) , an organization similar to Agriculture et Artisanat that was founded in Berlin on the day Hitler seized power . It was affiliated with Hadassah . These organizations saved many from the Holocaust . There she eventually became Secretary-General ( 1935 – 1939 ) . Her work with Youth Aliyah also involved finding food , clothing , social workers and lawyers , but above all , fund raising . She made her first visit to Palestine in 1935 , accompanying one of these groups and meeting with her cousin Ernst Fürst there . With the Nazi annexation of Austria and invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938 , Paris was flooded with refugees , and she became the special agent for the rescue of the children from those countries . In 1938 , Arendt completed her biography of Rahel Varnhagen , although this was not published until 1957 . In April 1939 , following the devastating '' Kristallnacht '' pogrom of November 1938 , Martha Beerwald realized her daughter would not return and made the decision to leave her husband and join Arendt in Paris . One stepdaughter had died and the other had moved to England , Martin Beerwald would not leave and she no longer had any close ties to Königsberg
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Hannah Arendt