Gottfried journal
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After Kristallnacht
In November of 1938,
the trickle of refugees turned into a flood.
As a child, to be honest, I knew nothing about Shanghai or even China. I lived in Vienna, and my horizons were pretty narrow. We went to Jewish organizations, and learned about Israel and European things, but not about China.
There wasn’t much time to pack, we just took our personal things. Some people had boxes and shipped things in crates, but most of these didn’t arrive. For instance my husband’s mother had quite a bit of good jewellery. She was always very elegant and fashionable. She went to one of the movers who said he would build her a crate with a hidden compartment in which she could put the jewellery. My husband made a list of each piece, even little drawings, but the crate never arrived. This is what happened to peoples’ things.
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