Several Institut associates who delayed emigration, including Walter Benjamin, died

Evidence

Some of the Institut’s associates - Karl Landauer, Andries Sternheim, and, most prominently, Walter Benjamin - had resisted its pleas to emigrate until it was too late. In many other cases, however, escape proved successful. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 522

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Walter Benjamin’s resistance to exile in America led to his suicide — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 595

Broader Connections