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In 1941, Arendt escaped with her husband and her mother to the United States.

They relied on the life-saving visas, illegally issued by the American diplomat Hiram Bingham IV, who aided in this way approximately 2, 500 other Jewish refugees.

Another American, Varian Fry, paid for their travels and helped in securing the visas.

Upon arrival in New York, Arendt became active in the German-Jewish community.

From 1941 to 1945, she wrote a column for the German-language Jewish newspaper, Aufbau.

From 1944, she directed research for the Commission of European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction and traveled frequently to Germany in this capacity.