Survive & Escape: One Family Chooses Life - Softcover

Ed Maurer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935534483 ISBN 13: 9781935534488

Publisher: The Troy Book Makers, 2010

Synopsis

Springtime in Vienna! On the streets, the aroma of fresh-ground coffee, chocolate and pastry. My six uncles, mother and father gather at a sidewalk table of the Cafe Vienna to schmooze. But it's also 1926. Worldwide financial woes, populist discontent and rumors of war generate anxiety and fear -- yet the "Capital of the World" seems to carry on as usual. This is the story of one family's choice for survival and escape from Europe through those terrible times. My Uncle Eugene led the way, holding the door open and providing U.S. sponsorship for the others to follow. It is also the story of those of us left behind as late as 1939, following Germany's takeover of Austria, when my Uncle Poldi was imprisoned in Dachau, then Buchenwald. My own immediate family was on the run in Fascist Italy. We escaped just days after Germany's policy of "deportation" became "The Final Solution." Mostly, it is about my father, Wolf, left behind because the U.S. barred immigration to Polish refugees. He prodded us on to safety locked in the war zone through the worst years of the Holocaust. In every way, I owe him my life.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Troy Book Makers
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1935534483
• ISBN 13: 9781935534488
• Binding: Paperback