Dimensions
165 x 235 x 10mm
Despite his worldwide reputation as the father of modern psychology, Sigmund Freud's security in his native Vienna changed overnight when Hitler's forces annexed Austria on 12 March 1938. His books had already been burned across Germany, and now he and his family were at immediate risk. The Nazis carried out regular raids on Jewish families' homes, and the Freuds were no exception, They suffered a period of house arrest and two months of uncertainty before finally securing papers for emigration to England and making a dramatic last-minute escape. Following their escape from Austria, both Sigmund's son Martin and his grandson Walter enlisted in the British Forces, going on to fight for Britain behind enemy lines in Austria. Using previously unpublished family archives and photographs, including correspondence and Sigmund Freud's diary, Helen Fry opens a window onto the Freuds' family life in pre-War Vienna and describes how this most famous of families became exiled from its homeland by the Nazis.
