Language:
English
Pages:
7 + 60 + 32
,
typescript; illustrated.
Year of publication:
1996
Keywords:
Blau, Bertha.
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Blau family.
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Dollfuss, Engelbert,
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Drucker, Kurt.
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Einstein, Albert,
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Fliegel, Hans Robert,
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Fliegel, Julius,
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Fliegel, Otto,
;
Fliegel, Rosa,
;
Fliegel, Wilhelm,
;
Fliegel family.
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Grunwald, Max,
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Haber, Georg.
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Levi, Alice.
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Lipschutz, Israel ben Gedaliah,
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Waldheim, Kurt.
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Dachau (Concentration camps)
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Antisemitism.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jews Genealogy.
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Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
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Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
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Voyages and travels.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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Antwerp (Belgium)
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Austria History Anschluss, 1938.
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Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934.
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New York (N.Y.)
;
United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945.
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Vienna (Austria)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoir was written in 1996. It contains family trees, copies of documents, correspondence of the 1980s and 90s pertaining to restitution claims and the Kurt Waldheim affair. Childhood recollections of the aftermath of World War One and life in the small Austrian Republic. Impact of the Social democratic city counsel in "Red Vienna". Memories of his school years. Private French lessons. Political turmoil and the civil war of 1934, which led to the autocratic regime of the Christian Socialists. Rising National Socialism. Summer vacation in Abbazia in 1937. Plans to enroll in Medical School after graduation (Matura). Growing apprehension in the days preceeding the "Anschluss" in 1938. Life under National Socialism. Confiscation of family assets and harassments. Preparations to leave the country. Graduation in June 1938. Detention of his father, who was released on the condition that he had to leave the country within six weeks. His brother Otto was sent to Dachau concentration camp. Delay of the affidavits from his grandfather's brother Morris Fliegel in Brooklyn, New York. The family got visas for Belgium through the family friend Isidore Lipschutz in Antwerp. Hurried departure and life in Antwerp. Difficulties to obtain their American affidavits. The family was able to leave right in time in October 1939, just when the war broke out. Arrival in New York and start of a new life. Difficult adjustments to life in the United States. Hans Fliegel was unable to have his education accredited for Medical School. Experiences in various jobs to contribute to the family budget. Apprenticeship in the diamond business. End of the war. Marriage with Alice Levi. Reflections on his life and career. Addendum: Recollections of the author's brother Fred Fliegel on life in Vienna during National Socialism. Detailed genealogy and family history.
Description / Table of Contents:
Also included are reproductions of documents.
Note:
Available on microfilm
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English
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Synopsis in file
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