Language:
English
Pages:
18 pages :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
2003
Former Title:
Memoirs
Keywords:
Mahler family.
;
Mahler, Robert,
;
Mahler (née Gutmann), Grete,
;
Watkins, Gerald Herbert,
;
Jews History.
;
Jews Persecutions
;
Kristallnacht, 1938.
;
Suicide.
;
Women authors.
;
Jews Persecutions
;
Australia Emigration and immigration.
;
Austria History Anschluss, 1938.
;
France.
;
Melbourne (Vic.)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoir starts with Sylvia Cherny's family background, the family business, and her time in Lower Austria where her family had lived for a couple of generations. She received private tutoring, coming from a well-off family. The "Anschluss" in 1938 changed everything. The family business was taken away and Sylvia Cherny provides a short chronology of its whereabouts. Her father commited suicide after the Anschluss, fearing the Gestapo who was looking for him. Sylvia Cherny went on a Kindertransport to France, then fled via Lisbon to New York. The final pages cover the first years in Melbourne, Australia, where she had joined her mother and her stepfather.
Note:
English
URL:
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