Language:
English
Pages:
65
,
typescript; illustrated.
Year of publication:
2004
Keywords:
Feldman family.
;
Kronenfeld family.
;
Birnbaum family.
;
Fuchs family.
;
Dachau (Concentration camp)
;
Emigration and immigration.
;
Jews Persecution.
;
Kristallnacht, 1938.
;
Tailors.
;
World War, 1914-1918.
;
World War, 1939-1945.
;
Austria History Anschluss, 1938.
;
Bad Vöslau (Austria)
;
Belgium.
;
Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine)
;
France.
;
Switzerland.
;
Vienna (Austria)
;
United States Emigration and immigration.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoir starts with a short description of political events in Austria before the Anschluss in the 1930s. He gives an account of Hitler's welcomed arrival in Vienna in March 1938, where he observed cheering crowds close to his apartment. He talks of the background and origin of his grandparents in Zablotov, Galicia, and Witznitz, Bukowina. Alfred Fox writes about childhood memories where the family went to Prater amusement park, made trips to spas at Bad Voeslau and boat trips on the Danube. Then he writes about the Anschluss, the November Pogrom where he saw synagogues burning, and where his father was taken to Dachau concentration camp. The family's emigration was difficult because of the quota system in the USA. They decided to leave for Belgium. He describes the ride on the train from Vienna to Cologne, were denied entry at the border to Belgium close to Aachen, but were told by a German officer a way how to sneak into Belgium. His father worked in Brussels as a tailor. The family fled from the German invasion to France (Bordeaux), and stayed in the Pyrenees until spring of 1941, went to Lyon and stayed there until spring of 1942. They went over the Alps into Switzerland with smugglers. They were put into a refugee camp in Zurich. He started to attend ORT organization's trade school class in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1947, he went to the USA, with the help of his uncle. The last 25 pages cover his time in the USA since. He married his wife Susanne (Pistiner) on September 17, 1950, who was also born in Vienna, joined the US army and the Korea War. The memoir illustrates Alfred Fox's life story with many personal & family photographs as well as a map of his emigration route.
Note:
English
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