Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Austrian History Yearbook
Angaben zur Quelle:
27 (1996) 1-20
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish refugees
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Delivered as the Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture, 1994. Discusses Austrian emigration in the Nazi era (including Jewish emigration) in comparison with emigration from Germany. The Jews of Austria had no preparatory time from 1933-38; the Anschluss was an unexpected blow, which doubled the number of asylum seekers. Countries of the free world were more reluctant to admit refugees than they had been in the mid-1930s, and Austrian Nazis were more brutal than their German counterparts. Illustrates this with the story of his family. After the Anschluss the Schwarzes left Vienna for Bratislava, only to be deported half a year later to a no-man's-land between Hungary and Czechoslovakia. They managed to return to Vienna in 1938, where they obtained visas for Bolivia. Reflects on the colossal, unparalleled contribution of emigre intellectuals from Austria to the cultural life of the receiving countries. Few of the emigres returned to Austria after 1945, not least because of persistent Austrian antisemitism.
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