Bértaux, Felix
1881-1948, French scholar of German, translator and writer, had contact to numerous German writers and was a close friend of Heinrich Mann
Berufsverbot [occupational ban]
The Berufsverbot denotes a governmental order that forbids persons and groups of persons from pursuing their occupation. In addition to artists, primarily doctors, pharmacists, lawyers, journalists and teachers were victims of a professional ban during the Nazi dictatorship.
Bewegung Freies Deutschland
founded in Mexico City in 1942. Its president was the writer Ludwig Renn who had emigrated from Germany. It had links to other exile organizations with the same name in Latin America and gradually supplanted the Liga Pro Cultura Alemana which had existed since 1938. In 1944, it had about 400 members. Bezalel Museum
Israeli University for Design and Art, established in 1906 by Boris Schatz in what was then Ottoman Jerusalem
Bibesco de Brancovan, Elisabeth
1897 – 1945, writer and daughter of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith and the former British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith; she was married to the aristocrat Antoine Bibesco de Brancovan.
Bingham, Hiram
1903-1988, US diplomat. Served in US Consulate in Marseilles from 1939 to 1941.
Blitzstein, Marc
1905 – 1964, American composer and translator
Blixen, Karen
(1885-1962), Danish writer, also wrote under the name Tania Blixen, ran a coffee plantation from 1914-1931 near the Ngong Hills (today in Kenya). Her years there were filmed in 1985 in Out of Africa.
Blücher, Heinrich
1899 – 1970, philosopher and the second husband of Hannah Arendt who also lived with her in exile in New York
Böll, Heinrich
1917–1985, one of the most important German writers of the post-war era, became well known for novels such as “Ansichten eines Clowns“ (The Clown) and “Billard um halb zehn“ (Billiards at Half-Past Nine.)
