The Virginia plan : William B. Thalhimer and a Rescue from Nazi Germany / Robert H. Gillette.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hope -- Finding a farm: late winter, 1938 -- Welcomed news at Gross Breesen -- Bondy's first consular meeting -- Immigration granite walls -- The "Virginia plan" begins -- Visa considerations: round one -- State/labor deliberations: round two -- Germany in the fall of 1938 -- Kristallnacht: November 10, 1938 -- Waiting for immigration, 1939 -- "Root holds," 1939 -- Visa deliberations after Kristallnacht -- Journey to Hyde Farmlands, 1939-1940 -- Bleak news from Europe -- Hyde Farmlands expands, 1939-1940 -- Neighbors and helpers -- Nearby towns -- Encounters with a new racism -- A community in transition, 1940 -- 1941: a fateful year -- After Hyde Farmlands -- The war years and after -- A final accounting -- Misconceptions -- Shareholders for life.