This is a very interesting read from a family member on my wife’s side, don’t you just love those old photos?
DORIS LURIE
I was ten years old on Feb. 26th 1938. Some days before the “Anschluss” I was no longer allowed to attend school. When Jewish-owned shops were attacked, when Jews were assaulted in the streets and forced to efface plebiscite slogans painted with indelible road paint, when it became suddenly dangerous to use public transport, my mother decided to leave Vienna.
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| Dossy and her mother Edith Ehrenstein, Vienna 1937
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My mother was a psychologist and was treating a young man from England. The day after the “Anschluss”1 my mother suddenly thought that should the need arise, she had better collect our passports from the lawyer. With the many new restrictions with respect to officialdom, her patient volunteered to accompany her to the lawyer’s offices. There were already two men in Nazi uniform guarding the entrance to the lawyer’s building, prohibiting entry. Her patient engaged them in conversation while she slipped through the gate.
I think South Africa should make a trip to the moon so we can plant a vuvuzela there for all of mankind.
