Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France

Author: P N Singer (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France. As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city's foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist. With the advent of the Nazis he was forced from both job and home. In 1943, in hiding in France, Scheyer began drafting what...Read more