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ln the weeks following
the annexation of Austria...
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...Nazi authorities had enacted
all the anti-Jewish laws...
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...it had taken Hitler five years
to put into place in Germany.
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For anyone coming from Vienna,
it was very dramatic.
:10:24
The reality of it struck me
when my parents talked about...
:10:28
...giving up the apartment,
that we had to Ieave.
:10:31
That was something,
you know, the bottom faIIs out.
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Everything faIIs out of you.
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This is all l knew...
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...and we had to give it up,
we had to leave.
:10:42
That was probably the biggest blow l had.
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Just the idea...
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...it´II aII end the way it is.
:10:58
My mother was an activist.
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She knew something had to be done.
:11:02
The decision was to go...
:11:04
...to England to be hired...
:11:07
...as a domestic, because the English
would take young women...
:11:10
...who would not interfere
with the labor market.
:11:12
The pIan was:
She wouId go ahead. She´d try...
:11:15
...to get me and my father out.
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This is the time when l remember...
:11:20
...there was no conversation
among the grown-ups...
:11:24
...except how to get out of Vienna.
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It´s interesting because we´re now asked,
"´How come you didn´t Ieave?"´
:11:31
And when I think
of what it meant to Ieave...
:11:35
...how impossibIe it was to Ieave.
:11:39
First of all, you had to have a sponsor...
:11:42
...in the country you were going to.
:11:44
Someone who would promise you would
not become a burden on the government.
:11:48
You would have to get a visa
from the state department...
:11:51
...or the government to be allowed in.
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Then you had to get an exit permit
from the Nazis.
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All these things had to come together.
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And they had a time span
in which they would expire.