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Privately printed memoir (238pp ts), in a translation from the German prepared by his daughter, titled 'Kristallnacht To Dachau', originally written in 1940 immediately after the events described, recording in vivid terms his experiences as an Austrian Jew arrested by the Gestapo in Vienna in November 1938 at the time of the 'Night of Broken Glass', detention at various locations in the city together with other arrested Jews, mainly in a former convent school building in the Kenyongasse where the prisoners were subjected to sustained humiliation, ill-treatment and torture (described at considerable length), before being transported to Dachau concentration camp, the memoir continuing in daily diary form with a detailed account of conditions in the camp as he experienced them until mid-January 1939 when he was released (the author sought refuge in England in March 1939, was interned after the outbreak of war and sent to Canada, returning in 1942 to settle in London). With the memoir is a small number of original documents including: letter written to his parents from Dachau (December 1938); certificates from the police authorities in Vienna relating to his emigration to the UK (1939); four letters written from internment in Ottawa, Canada (1941); also one letter and three postcards sent from the Litzmannstadt (Lodz) ghetto by family relations.
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Privately printed memoir (238pp ts), in a translation from the German prepared by his daughter, titled 'Kristallnacht To Dachau', originally written in 1940 immediately after the events described, recording in vivid terms his experiences as an Austrian Jew arrested by the Gestapo in Vienna in November 1938 at the time of the 'Night of Broken Glass', detention at various locations in the city together with other arrested Jews, mainly in a former convent school building in the Kenyongasse where the prisoners were subjected to sustained humiliation, ill-treatment and torture (described at considerable length), before being transported to Dachau concentration camp, the memoir continuing in daily diary form with a detailed account of conditions in the camp as he experienced them until mid-January 1939 when he was released (the author sought refuge in England in March 1939, was interned after the outbreak of war and sent to Canada, returning in 1942 to settle in London). With the memoir is a small number of original documents including: letter written to his parents from Dachau (December 1938); certificates from the police authorities in Vienna relating to his emigration to the UK (1939); four letters written from internment in Ottawa, Canada (1941); also one letter and three postcards sent from the Litzmannstadt (Lodz) ghetto by family relations.
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