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Title

Wallenbergs Laufbursche : Jugenderinnerungen 1938-1945 / Jonny Moser.

Author

Moser, Jonny, 1925-

Publication

Wien : Picus, c2006.

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Details

Description

392 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1926 in Parndorf, Austria, near the Hungarian border. His father, Josef, was a convert to Judaism. Following the "Anschluss", the local authorities tried to solve the "Jewish problem" by expelling the Jews to Hungary or Vienna. The Moser family (parents, son and daughter) ended up in Vienna in fall 1938. Refusing to renounce his Judaism and divorce his wife, Moser's father was arrested in 1939. Soon after that he received a tourist visa to Hungary, where he was interned in a camp in Garany (near Budapest). The rest of the family made their way to Budapest (illegally) to be with him. Between 1940-44, the family was interned in various camps in Budapest, due to the fact that they registered themselves as Jews (in hopes of receiving certificates for Palestine). In summer 1944, as they were about to be deported to Auschwitz, Jonny, and the rest of the family following his example, argued that they were Austrian non-Jews and were transferred to a "Schubhaus", a mixture of a shelter and a prison in Budapest, awaiting further investigation. In the beginning of August they were sent to a German internment camp for political prisoners in Kistarcsa (Budapest metropolitan area), from where they were rescued by Raoul Wallenberg, who provided them with protective passports. Moser functioned as a messenger and office boy for Wallenberg. Pp. 165-308 describe Wallenberg's rescue activities and interventions on behalf of the Jews. After the liberation, the Moser family returned to Austria.

Series Statement

Spuren der Zeit

Uniform Title

Spuren in der Zeit

Subject

• Wallenberg, Raoul, 1912-1947
• Moser, Jonny, 1925-
• Geschichte 1938-1945
• Geschichte 1944-1945
• 1918-1945
• Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust > Biography
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Jewish
• Jews > Austria > Biography
• Jews > Hungary > Biography
• World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Hungary
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Personal narratives
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Austria
• Hungary > History > 1918-1945
• Austria > History > 1938-1945
• Austrian Jews escape Hungarian politics Arrow Cross Party fascist regime Wallenberg, Raoul, Swedish ambassador Burgenland Austrian history Hungarian history 20th century
• Österreichische Juden Flucht ungarische Politik Pfeilkreuz Partei faschistisches Regime Wallenberg, Raoul, schwedischer Gesandter österreichische Geschichte ungarische Geschichte 20. Jahrhundert

Genre/Form

• History
• Biographies
• Personal narratives

Note

• Memoirs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-376, 385-391).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9783854526155 (hd.bd.)
• 3854526156 (hd.bd.)

LCCN

9783854526155

OCLC

• 74270115
• SCSB-12214947

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library