Asylum

A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France

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Translated by P. N. Singer

Epilogue by P. N. Singer

By Moriz Scheyer

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A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer’s flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France.

As arts editor for one of Vienna’s principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city’s foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist. With the advent of the Nazis he was forced from both job and home. In 1943, in hiding in France, Scheyer began drafting what was to become this book.

Tracing events from the Anschluss in Vienna, through life in Paris and unoccupied France, including a period in a French concentration camp, contact with the Resistance, and clandestine life in a convent caring for mentally disabled women, he gives an extraordinarily vivid account of the events and experience of persecution.

After Scheyer’s death in 1949, his stepson, disliking the book’s anti-German rhetoric, destroyed the manuscript. Or thought he did. Recently, a carbon copy was found in the family’s attic by P.N. Singer, Scheyer’s step-grandson, who has translated and provided an epilogue.

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Sep 27, 2016
Page Count
304 pages
Publisher
Little Brown Spark
ISBN-13
9780316272872

Moriz Scheyer

About the Author

Moriz Scheyer (1886-1949) was arts editor of one of Vienna’s main newspapers from 1924 until his expulsion in 1938. A personal friend of Stefan Zweig, in his own lifetime he published three books of travel writing and three volumes of literary-historical essays. He died in France in 1949.

P. N. Singer is Scheyer’s step-grandson, a writer, and a translator.

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