In August 1927 , shortly after her engagement to the Berlin jurist and later Hamburg senator Gerhard Kramer ( 1904 – 1973 ) , Pool moved to Berlin . There she studied English Literature at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität ( currently known as the Humboldt University ) . Although she later claimed to be an anthropologist , she majored in Philology . She wrote her dissertation on '' The Poetry of the American Negro '' , but was unable to finish this because of anti-Jewish measures by the Nazis . In 1935 Kramer and Pool divorced . From Berlin , Pool helped German Jews to flee to the Netherlands , by providing them addresses . In January 1939 , shortly after the Kristallnacht , Pool returned to Amsterdam
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Rosey E. Pool