Language:
English
Pages:
66 pages :
,
Typed and bound manuscript.
Year of publication:
1996
Keywords:
Leist, Friedrich.
;
Leist, Peter.
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Antisemitism.
;
Women authors.
;
Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
;
Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
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Manners and customs Children
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Austria History Anschluss, 1938.
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England Emigration and immigration.
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Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoirs were written in 1996 at Lisa Seiden's home. The main time covered is her childhood in Vienna and her stay in Bath, England, during the war. Lisa Seiden describes daily life for a child in Vienna--the type of dolls she had, activities on a cold winter day, vaccations on the countryside. In 1938, she was not allowed to go to school anymore. She remembers many details during that time of horros--the anxious expressions in her parents' faces, the constant fear they had while being in the apartment. One day, the Gestapo was looking for her father, Friedrich Leist, but he was warned and did not return home. He had a hise-out and Lisa brought him food. It did not help--a few days later, he was sent to Dachau concentration camp. On December 17, 1938, Lisa and her brother Peter were sent via Kindertransport to England. Since their parents did not get visas for England, they emigrated to Argentine where an uncle lived. Lisa Seiden writes about her time in Englad, her foster parents, schooling, and air raids. In May of 1946, a ship takes Lisa and Peter to their parents in Buenos Aires, Argentine. The memoir includes copies of photographs showing family members, herself, her doll's house, and vaccation trips etc. There also many letters included, as well as bits of Lisa Seiden's brother's (Peter Leist) dairy.
Note:
English
URL:
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