Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

I'd like to come back toDollfuss in a little. But you, you said you had some religious training.

Oh we all had to you know, school, twelve years ofit. Twice a week.

So when a priest would,the priest would come into your class.

No, the priest would teach the Catholics. The rabbiwould teach the Jews. And the Protestant would go to another school becausethere weren't enough.

So did you leave theroom at that time?

We went to different rooms, but we heard what hesaid from the other kids.

Um, how many otherJewish children were in your class?

There were twelve, twelve or thirteen.

Of. How large was theclass altogether?

Oh, our class was about forty, thirty-two of whomgraduated. And we had a reunion in, in, our fiftieth high school reunion andthere wasn't a single Jewish student who died in a camp, not one in our class,which is a miracle because we graduated in 1937, just before the Anschluss.

Did the whole classsurvive?

There were two who were executed as um, somepolitical activity, but they were not Jewish. Everyone else.

All the Jews survived.

All the Jews survived. Well, two died of naturalcourses causes just before that, but, just before we, we had our reunion. Butevery one of them survived.

Survived the war.

Yeah. Not their parents. Just the studentsthemselves, because very often they sent the boys away, thinking that Hitlerwas going to take the boys. And then the parents were going to stay and thenthe parents died. That happened to several classmates. One living in New Yorkthat happened to.

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