As Hitler consolidated power and began his relentless persecution, and eventual extermination, of millions of European Jews, many escaped to other countries in search of peace and survival.

Simultaneously, as American doctors left to fight in the war, medical and psychiatric institutions, such as those at Springfield Hospital, just outside Sykesville, Maryland, became desperately short of professional staff.

Soon, a small expatriate community of highly educated European Jews formed near the town of Sykesville.

During this talk, Jack White will tell the story of one of them, a man named Kurt Glaser, whose dramatic escape from Austria, Switzerland, France, and then across the Atlantic through a hurricane, is the stuff of epic films.