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Asylum : a survivor's flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna through wartime France / Moriz Scheyer ; translated, with an epilogue and essay and notes, by the author's grandson, P.N. Singer.

by Scheyer, Moriz, 1886-1949

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Little, Brown and Company, c2016.

940.5318092 S328a

Scheyer, Moriz, 1886-1949.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Austria -- Vienna -- Personal narratives.

Jews -- Austria -- Vienna -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

9780316272889 (hc.)

0316272884 (hc.)

1st North American ed.

305 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-305).

The 'Anschluss' -- Breathing again: Switzerland -- France: beloved France -- Earning the first hundred francs -- The men in berets -- The 'Drôle de Guerre' -- Paris, ghost of an enchanted city -- Paths of the Exodus -- 'Armistice' -- Paris under the German boot -- The French ... and the French -- From 'the Israelites' to 'the Jew' -- Stay of execution -- 'For examination of your situation' -- Hut 8 -- Another stay of execution -- 'Zone libre' -- Voiron -- Nine gendarmes versus five Jews -- Caserne Bizanet, Grenoble -- A toast -- Escape to Switzerland -- A telegram -- Labarde -- Blessed are the poor in spirit -- Nuns -- A glimpse through a peephole -- Music -- Eugène le Roy -- Informers -- In place of a chapter on the Resistance -- They're coming - they're not coming - they're coming! -- The morning of 6th June 1944 -- Summer -- The first step into freedom -- Carlos -- In memory of my comrades from the concentration camp at Beaune-la-Rolande -- The undeserving survivors -- Still in Labarde: but free.

"A recently discovered account reveals an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution and clandestine life in wartime France"--NoveList.

Singer, P. N. (Peter N.), 1962-

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