Testimony of Greta Stanton Wertheimer, born in Wien, Austria, 1919, regarding the persecution of Austrian Jews and immigration to the United States in 1939

Testimony of Greta Stanton Wertheimer, born in Wien, Austria, 1919, regarding the persecution of Austrian Jews and immigration to the United States in 1939 Family background; her father is an advocate, her mother is a housewife; studies in a Jewish school. Anti-Semitism before the war; graduation from high school; difficulty finding work due to anti-Semitism; Anschluss, 1938; prohibition of possession of weapons by Jews; arrest of her father for possession of a weapon; release of her father by her uncle; attempt to locate relatives in U.S. to obtain U.S. immigration clearance; contacting a distant aunt who lived in the US; departure alone without parents from Austria; crossing through Paris; arriving in Liverpool; sailing on a ship to the US; arrival at an aunt who lives in New York; deportation of the parents from the apartment to another area in Austria, December 1939; duty to wear a stigma by the parents, 1940. Her parents' success in leaving Austria two days before deportation from Austria to Poland; her parents' success in immigrating to Havana; the witness' attempts to help her parents to arrive and their success in emigrating, September 1942; hostile treatment by American Jews of Jewish immigrants from Europe; continuation of life in the United States.