Home is somewhere else : autobiography in two voices / Desider Furst and Lilian R. Furst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Furst, Desider.

Contributor:

Furst, Lilian R.

Series:

SUNY series, the margins of literature.

SUNY series, margins of literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Austria--Vienna--Biography.

Jews.

Jewish refugees--England--Manchester--Biography.

Jewish refugees.

Furst, Desider.

Furst, Lilian R.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Following the Nazi annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Desider Furst, his wife, and his daughter suddenly found themselves hunted outlaws, holders of a German passport branded with a red "J" for Jewish. They escaped from Vienna and eventually settled in England, where they spent the war years as "enemy aliens." In 1971 they emigrated once more, this time voluntarily, to the United States. Home is Somewhere Else is a dual-voice, autobiographical narration by father and daughter, recounting the family's displacements, obstacles, and repeated reversals.The experiences documented here are typical of many Central Europeans whose lives were radically and painfully affected by the Nazis. This book's originality lies in its narrative format and its revelation of what befell the "lucky" ones merely on the margins of the Holocaust.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

Introduction

Coming To Vienna

Vienna

Flight From Vienna

Cologne

Brussels

London

Chertsey

Isle of Man

Bedford

Manchester

The Silent Third Person

And They Lived Happily Ever After ...

As My Father Used To Say

NOTES

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9781438403533

1438403534

9780585044637

0585044635

OCLC:

42854864