Last Waltz in Vienna: The Destruction of a Family : 1842-1942Memoirs of a Jew, born as Georg Klaar in 1920 in Vienna to a wealthy family that came originally from Bukovina. Pp. 219-308 deal with the persecution of the Klaars by the Nazis after the Anschluss. Clare, an only child, left Vienna with his parents in the autumn of 1939. Clare immigrated to Ireland and then joined the British Army, while his parents sought refuge in France. They were deported from Saint-Pierreville via Drancy to Auschwitz in September 1942, where they were killed. After the war Clare remained in England. |
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