They Were Good Germans Once: A MemoirIn these essays, Toynton remembers her emigre relatives, some of whom left Germany as soon as Hitler came to power, others only escaped later. Evelyn Toynton's relatives, German Jewish refugees all, had grown up thinking of themselves as Germans first and Jews second. Her portraits of them, subtly comic when depicting the Germanic traits they retained throughout their lives, take on a tragic poignancy when showing the sorrow they carried: how could