Language:
English
Pages:
33 pages :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1969
Keywords:
Bach, family.
;
Grunfeld family.
;
Kary family.
;
Hat trade.
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Internment of aliens.
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Jewish families 19th century.
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World War, 1914-1918.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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Austria History Anschluss, 1938.
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Czechoslovakia.
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England.
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United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties.
;
Vienna (Austria)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoirs were written In 1969. Genealogy of the Boehm family, dating back to the 18th century. The author's great-grandparents came from Nikolsburg, Moravia, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They emigrated to the capital Vienna In 1840, where the widowed greet grandmother opened a business with raw materials, which later on was developed into a hat factory. Family history of the Bach and Grunfeld family. Description of domestic life and family activities, like Sunday “jours”. Description of gender difference in education end upbringing. Family apartment house in Vienna, Mariahilferstrasse. Summer vacations In the family country house In Baden. His brother Victor showed an early talent for technical studies, but was not able to attend university, because he was needed in the family business. He continued his studies privately. The author finished Handels•Akadomie and joined the family business as well. Recollections of the enthusiasm end patriotism In the first days after the declaration of the war In 1914. The author and his brother Victor proudly volunteered In the Austro-Hungarian Army. Description of the terrors of the war. End of the war and collapse of the empire. Inflation and difficulties to keep up their business. Difficulties in the exchange of goods between the family factories in Czechoslovakia and Vienna. Expanding business. Recollections of Anschluss to Nazi Germany in March of 1938. Immediate awareness of approaching dangers and concentrating efforts on liquidating business and getting family members out of the country. Difficulties in obtaining immigrations visas. The family dispersed in different countries.
Abstract:
The author and his brother Victor escaped with their families to Czechoslovakia in September of 1938, when the German troops were already occupying the northern parts of the country. They had to leave within a short time and obtained visas for Belgium with the help of their business friendFritz Feldheim, who had connections with the embassy. In January of 1939 they emigrated to England, where they successfully started a hat factory. In 1940 their status as “enemy aliens” became more and more restrictive, and they were informed about their possible internment in a camp on the Isle of Man. They sold their factory and with help of their American visas, which had arrived in the meantime, proceeded their immigration to the United States in June and July of 1940.
Note:
See also: ME 1349
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English
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