 She made her first visit to Palestine in 1935, accompanying one of these groups and meeting with her cousin Ernst Fürst there.With the Nazi annexation of Austria and invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938, Paris was flooded with refugees, and she became the special agent for the rescue of the children from those countries.In 1938, Arendt completed her biography of Rahel Varnhagen, although this was not published until 1957.