Language:
English
Pages:
146 pages :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
2003
Keywords:
Bach family.
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Boehm family.
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Boehm, Gertrude,
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Boehm, Victor,
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Antisemitism.
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Education, Secondary 1933-1945.
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Jewish refugees.
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Jews Persecution.
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Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties.
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Universities and colleges.
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Women Education.
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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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London (England)
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New York (N.Y.)
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United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties.
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Uruguay.
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Vienna (Austria)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoirs were written between 1998 and 2000. Description of family apartment house built by his grandfather in Mariahilferstrasse, Vienna’s 6th district. The family lived in the penthouse designed by the Viennese architect Ernst Plischke. The Boehm family was the owner of textile factories in Bohemia. They had a governess and a English language tutor. The family was one of the few in Vienna to own a car. Their mother Gertrude was a passionate driver, who participated in various Road Rallies. She was a university graduate and had earned a PhD in chemistry in 1921. Their father was a war veteran of World War One. Summer vacations in Italy and Czechoslovakia. They also spent a few summers in a rented villa in the outskirts of Vienna. On Christmas vacations the family went skiing in St. Anton. In 1935 Heinrich Boehm was enrolled in the “Theresianum”, an elite private school in Vienna. Plans to become a physicist with the encouragement of the author’s mother. In 1937 he contracted Legg-Perthes disease and was sent to a Sanatorium to recover. Private tutoring. Very first encounter with antisemitism at the sanatorium in February of 1938. Transfer back to Vienna. Recollections of the weeks leading up to Austria’s annexation by Nazi Germany in March of 1938. Life in Nazi Austria and preparations for their emigration. Conversion in order to assimilate better in their emigration. The family was able to leave the country in September of 1938 for Czechoslovakia. Henry’s sisters were placed to boarding schools in Great Britain with the help of their father’s uncle Frederick Bach, who resided in England. From Czechoslovakia they immigrated to Belgium, where Henry was enrolled in school again. In February of 1939 they left for Great Britain. Life of émigrés in London. Recollections of wartime England. Passport procedures and visa preparations.
Abstract:
Detailed description of the family’s departure from Great Britain to the United States via Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo on board of the “Andalusia Star” in 1941. The “Andalusia Star” was sunk a few months after their arrival in the United States. Recollections of their stay in Brazil and Uruguay. Detailed description of the German submarine war. Arrival in New York on April 7th 1941, where the family was reunited with their father.
Note:
English
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