My parents left Vienna in 1938 after the Anschluss. Both sets of my grandparents left Vienna in 1939, and a great uncle and his family in early 1940. The great uncle was one of the last to leave. They all moved to England. My great uncle went via Belgium and was held up there until my mother's former employer, a member of parliament, helped get them out. My grandparents had to fill out detailed financial disclosure forms, which enabled the Government to confiscate most of their assets. Fortunately, the Austrian government reimbursed our families for part of the confiscated assets around 1999. My parents and other family members were interned by the British as "enemy aliens" on the Isle of Man shortly after the Nazis started bombing England. They spent a year in separate camps, as men and women were kept separate.
Tony Hausner
Silver Spring, MD