Language:
English
Pages:
5 pages :
,
typescript, copies.
Year of publication:
2000
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 20th century.
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust survivors.
;
Intermarriage.
;
Jewish refugees
;
Jewish refugees
;
Women authors.
;
Austria History Anschluss, 1938.
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New York (N.Y.)
;
United States Emigration and immigration.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
This memoir was written for a Holocaust Survivors' Webpage for people who went to Hunter College High School, New York City, NY. Lisa F. Barclay's memoir is short and concise. She talks briefly about her family's background and her childhood in pre-war Vienna. The "Anschluss" of Austria to Nazi Germany in March 1938 changed everything. The family was forced to emigrate. Her parents were a mixed couple - the father Jewish, the mother a Catholic. They got help from a number of Catholic friends, which gave them a few more options than a Jewish family. They got the US affidavit through an American relative, but had to wait long for the actual visas, since her father was born in Hungary and therefore considered under the quota for Hungarian citizens. After leaving Austria in 1938, they temporarliy lived in Paris, France, and Lisbon, Portugal. The memoir ends with a description of the living conditions after their arrival in New York.
Note:
English
URL:
http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=402404&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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