As a Jew, Arnold Schönberg, founder of the twelve-tone technique and one of the leading figures of classical modernism in music, was one of those racially persecuted under National Socialism. He and his family left Berlin, where he had taught, for exile in Paris in 1933 and then went on to America. This picture shows him (right) with his wife Gertrud and their daughter Nuria Dorothea, born in 1932, on board the “Île de France” on October 31, 1933, shortly before arriving in New York.
