Language:
English
Pages:
17 + 56
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
2002
Keywords:
Grese, Irma
;
Treuer family
;
Treuer, Fritz,
;
Treuer, Mia (née Weil)
;
Antisemitism.
;
Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
;
Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties.
;
Families
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Austria History Anschluss, 1938.
;
England.
;
United States.
;
Vienna (Austria)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
In the first chapter, “Holocaust and I”, Robert Treuer describes his youth in Vienna/Austria, how he grew up and how the anti-Semitism became more and more apparent in Austria. After the Anschluss, his father decided for him and his mother to leave the country. They emigrated to England where his mother worked as a housekeeper. Robert Treuer was separated from his mother, because the employer did not want another child in the house. His father was still in Austria. After being abused at school, his uncle took him away and brought him to a nearby tent camp in London. After a while, his father got the chance to escape from Austria and came to England as well. Although Robert Treuer’s father wrote letters to many countries to immigrate, only the United States allowed them to enter. Together with his parents he immigrated to the United States on February 9, 1939. In the second chapter, “Redemption. Searching for Trude and Irma”, Robert Treuer returned for a trip to Germany with two of his children and visited some of the concentration camps. During his stay in Germany, all the memories of the cruelty of the Nazi regime came back. He also talks about his cousin Erika and her family in Vienna and Hohenau. She was sent to England with the Kindertransport and never saw any member of his family again.
Abstract:
Also included are Robert Treuer's questionnaire with the Austrian Heritage Collection and a curriculum vitae.
