ABSTRACT
Harms Sachs—who was to play an important role in helping lay analysts in America—and other fellow emigrants from Berlin, all began to assume a very important role in American psychoanalysis. This chapter focuses on some of the details concerning the first German-Jewish emigration wave. In a letter dated 5 June 1933, Anna Freud mentions the plight of E. Simmel and of K. Landauer, both of whom were experiencing serious financial difficulties. In talking about them, Anna refers to them as "Sorgenkinder": "children in need of care, and who are causing concern". In the correspondence between Anna Freud and Ernest Jones from April 1933 onwards, and in the letters Jones wrote to Brill, P. Federn, Eitingon, van Ophuijsen, and others to inform them of events as they unfolded. In a letter to Jones dated 5 June 1933, having underlined the importance of keeping "track" of the refugees and having given Jones information about the various psychoanalysts who had left Berlin.
