Lucy Glaser Merritt - July 8, 1991
Leaving Austria
So what were the circumstancesunder which you managed to get out?
Well uh, my father found that uh, they needednurses in England. And so we wrote to them. And I didn't speak English at thetime but I had a friend help me write a letter saying I wanted to be a nurse inEngland. And they took me. They said, "Okay, you'll come to Exeter and wewill train you." That's what they were looking for. And so I was able to leavebecause then I had a visa. And, and my brother went to Argentina because theyneeded someone to clear uh, the forest.
Do you think there wasanything else to it? I mean, you two were just lucky?
Oh I think it was just luck. I uh, don't thinkanything, anything else there was luck. It was blind luck.
You don't think therewas any, any um, possible working with the bureaucracy, maybe bribing somebodyhere and there.
No.
Just random.
Yeah, it was random. My father was busy. He wentaround and he went to the Jewish community and he looked at possible leadsbecause we didn't really have these close relatives. And so he was checking forleads when he came across this thing with England. And the affidavit was onlyfor my parents, not for my brother and me as far as, at least. And, so.
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