Home Is Somewhere Else: Autobiography In Two Voices (suny Series, The Margins Of Literature)

Following the Nazi annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Desider Furst, his wife, and his daughter suddenly found themselves hunted outlaws, holders of a German passport branded with a red "J" for Jewish. They escaped from Vienna and eventually settled in England, where they spent the war years as "enemy aliens." In 1971 they emigrated once more, this time voluntarily, to the United States. Home is Somewhere Else is a dual-voice autobiographical narration by father and daughter, recounting the family's displacements, obstacles, and repeated reversals. The experiences documented here are typical of many Central Europeans whose lives were radically and painfully affected by the Nazis. This book's originality lies in its narrative format and its revelation of what befell the "lucky" ones merely on the margins of the Holocaust. Jewish Book World An unusual dual autobiography of a father and a daughter's account of identical experiences during and post World War II. The story is told from the perspective of a child's impressions complemented by the adult recollections of the same situations. The different points of view are interesting and dramatic. The family's flight from occupied Vienna to safety in Manchester, England, is compelling and vivid history. "Following the Nazi annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Desider Furst, his wife, and his daughter suddenly found themselves hunted outlaws, holders of a German passport branded with a red "J" for Jewish. They escaped from Vienna and eventually settled in England, where they spent the war years as "enemy aliens." In 1971 they emigrated once more, this time voluntarily, to the United States. Home is Somewhere Else is a dual-voice autobiographical narration by father and daughter, recounting the family's displacements, obstacles, and repeated reversals."--BOOK JACKET. "The experiences documented here are typical of many Central Europeans whose lives were radically and painfully affected by the Nazis. This book's originality lies in its narrative format and its revelation of what befell the "lucky" ones merely on the margins of the Holocaust."--BOOK JACKET An Austrian father and daughter alternate chapters to recount how in 1938 they found themselves with German passports stamped with the red J for Jewish, escaped from Vienna and made their way to London where they lived out the war as enemy aliens, and emigrated to the US in 1971. Their story is typical of many eastern Europeans of the period. No index or bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Desider Furst, M.D. , died in 1985. Lilian R. Furst is Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.