Pages:
44 + 6
,
typescripts.
Year of publication:
1942
Keywords:
Fleischer family.
;
Dachau (Concentration camp)
;
Antisemitism.
;
Kristallnacht, 1938.
;
Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
;
Deportations.
;
World War, 1914-1918.
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World War, 1939-1945.
;
Austria History 1918-1938.
;
Austria History Anschluss, 1938.
;
United States Emigration and immigration 1939.
;
Vienna (Austria)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoir was written for the Harvard University competition in 1942. Also included is an English language report "My experiences on the tenth of November, 1938."
Abstract:
Description of family history. His father was a businessman who came from Budapest to Vienna in 1890. Recollections of his school years in the Gymnasium. Graduation in 1914. Philipp enrolled with classes in German and Latin at the Vienna University. In 1916 he volunteered as a soldier in World War One and was soon promoted to become an officer in the army. Disastrous aftermath of the war. Philipp returned to university to continue his studies. He became a teacher at a Gymnasium (high school). Description of political tensions in post-war Austria. Civil war of 1934. At this time he became strongly aware of the rising attraction of the National Socialist movement. Anschluss in 1938. Degrading "spontaneous actions" against the Jewish population of Vienna. Philipp Flesch lost his position and was forced to retire. He started teaching at a improvised Jewish school. Maltreatment of students by the Hitler youth. Observations of Nazi enthusiasm in the Austrian Gentile population. Occasional experiences of support by neighbors and strangers. Reflections on the Nazi ideology and hatred against Jews. Reports of the first deportations to concentration camps. Recollections of the night of the November pogrom and its aftermath 1938 in Vienna. Description of the circumstances of his arrest and the maltreatment by the Gestapo. Terror and humiliation. Release due to his achievements in World War One. Awareness of the magnitude of destruction and terror. Summons to the Gestapo headquarters. Sarcasm of Nazi bureaucracy and preparations for his emigration. Outbreak of the war. Philipp Flesch left Vienna in 1939 for the United States and emigrated via Holland to New York.
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
German and English
URL:
http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=779513&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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