Asylum
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Asylum

A survivor’s flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna through wartime France

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Asylum

A survivor’s flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna through wartime France

About this book

In 1943, hidden by the Resistance in a French convent, Moriz Scheyer began drafting an account of his wartime experiences: a tense, moving, at times almost miraculous story of flight and persecution in Austria and France.
As arts editor of Vienna's principal newspaper before the German annexation of Austria, Scheyer had known the city's great artists, including Stefan Zweig and Gustav Mahler, and was himself an important literary journalist. In this book he brings his distinctive critical and emotional voice to bear on his own extraordinary experiences: Vienna at the Anschluss; Paris immediately pre-war and under Nazi occupation; the 'Exodus'; two periods of incarceration in French concentration camps; contact with the Resistance; a failed attempt at escape to Switzerland; and a dramatic rescue followed by clandestine life in a mental asylum run by Franciscan nuns.
Completed in 1945, Scheyer's memoir is remarkable not just for the riveting events that it recounts, but as a near-unique survivor's perspective from that time.

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Information

Publisher
Profile Books
Year
2016
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781782832294
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Copyright Page
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Moriz Scheyer’s Manuscript
  5. Foreword
  6. 1. The ‘Anschluss’
  7. 2. Breathing again: Switzerland
  8. 3. France: beloved France
  9. 4. Earning the first hundred francs
  10. 5. The men in berets
  11. 6. The ‘Drôle de Guerre’
  12. 7. Paris, ghost of an enchanted city
  13. 8. Paths of the Exodus
  14. 9. ‘Armistice’
  15. 10. Paris under the German boot
  16. 11. The French … and the French
  17. 12. From ‘the Israelites’ to ‘the Jew’
  18. 13. Stay of execution
  19. 14. ‘For examination of your situation’
  20. 15. Hut 8
  21. 16. Another stay of execution
  22. 17. ‘Zone libre’
  23. 18. Voiron
  24. 19. Nine gendarmes versus five Jews
  25. 20. Caserne Bizanet, Grenoble
  26. 21. A toast
  27. 22. Escape to Switzerland
  28. 23. A telegram
  29. 24. Labarde
  30. 25. Blessed are the poor in spirit
  31. 26. Nuns
  32. 27. A glimpse through a peephole
  33. 28. Music
  34. 29. Eugène le Roy
  35. 30. Informers
  36. 31. In place of a chapter on the Resistance
  37. 32. They’re coming – they’re not coming – they’re coming!
  38. 33. The morning of 6th June 1944
  39. 34. Summer
  40. 35. The first step into freedom
  41. 36. Carlos
  42. 37. In memory of my comrades from the concentration camp at Beaune-la-Rolande
  43. 38. The undeserving survivors
  44. 39. Still in Labarde: but free
  45. Afterword
  46. Translator’s epilogue
  47. Moriz Scheyer: writer
  48. People mentioned in the text
  49. A chronology of events: 1933–1945
  50. Further reading

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