:11:00
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.
:11:17
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.
:11:27
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.
:11:53
Then you had to get an exit permit
from the Nazis.
:11:57
All these things had to come together.
:11:59
And they had a time span
in which they would expire.
:12:03
You had to collect all these things together
so that they would be ready.
:12:08
And it usually didn´t happen.
:12:11
The hardest thing
was to find a country to go to.
:12:14
The countries under discussion were:
:12:16
Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela...
:12:19
...Shanghai, Cuba, the Dominican Republic.
:12:23
l remember going with my father
to the American consulate.
:12:27
There was a queue around the block...
:12:30
...up the stairs...
:12:32
...and around the room.
:12:36
We are now in the late summer of 1938.
:12:40
I got to the United States on May 1, 1951 .
:12:47
It was a 13-year...
:12:50
...quota for us.
:12:54
German troops
had barely entered Austria...
:12:57
...when Hitler demanded the annexation
of Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.